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well that's like, your opinion, man.

I am absolutely not advocating rudeness to the cashier.

Give them the opportunity for malicious compliance.

Allow them to answer every question and have a pleasant break from the monotony, knowing full well that they are being cheerful and helpful just like the training videos and handbook demand they be.

Cool assumption bro. Hope that works out for you.
I am never rude to the poor people that have to work retail. I know the pain; I have been on the other side of the counter.

What I'm talking about is malicious compliance.

They tell the cashiers to push the program and be helpful? Fine. I will let that cashier be the most helpful employee ever and at the same time gum up the company data collection system with fake information.

At the same time as more punshment to the company they will see reduced sales and throughput requiring additional cashiers (more hours/pay for those people).

But please bring on the fake internet point brigade.

I didn't say to be rude to the cashier. They make hourly wage, doesn't matter how many people they check out.

Make the company pay. Cause less product to be sold per hour. Cause more cashiers to be required. Make it more expensive to have the data collection program than to not have it. Be the change you want to see in the world.

Or just let them get away with it. Your call.

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And there's your problem. You're echoing using double quotes which will interpret characters. Don't do that. That's a bug. cat or cp the file to the destination; printf if the contents are all in that variable.

Here's what I'm reading:

startup-script line 27 threw the error.

I'm reading this and interpreting that line 27 of that script is

sudo echo "# FYI quotes(") must be escaped with \ like \"

I am confused why there is no trailing double quote, the last 3 chars should be \"" so perhaps this is a bad assumption but the best I can do with the available information.

So the fix here is to change startup-script line 27 so that you're not echoing things that might contain characters that might be interpreted by echo or your shell.

Now if startup-script is provided by your distro, there may be a reason that it's using echo, but I will tell you now whatever dipshit reason they provide they're fucking wrong because EXHIBIT A: # " fucks the script and rule 0 of linux is "don't break userspace".

Everything else allows any printable char after the # in a comment, that script is not special, comments are not to be interpreted by the program. That is a show-stopping bug in startup-script and must be fixed.

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i think the real error was that you started the echo with a double quote and ended with a single quote. had you properly wrapped it with single quotes it would have worked. even if you had escaped the double quote, there still would have been an error because you'd have a multi-line string with no ending " (the 2nd double quote was properly escaped so that would not have terminated your string)

Also, you didn't escape your slashes.

Either it should have looked like this:

echo '# FYI quotes(") must be escaped with \ like \"'

or this:

echo "# FYI quotes(\") must be escaped with \\ like \\\""

Don't forget the best place to whistleblow and/or change the system is from within. Privacy minded people can better influence what policies and practices happen at a company when they work there.

If only there were a special path like, oh I don't know, /dev for device handles.

ELI5?