On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 1:54 PM, <f.de.kru...@gmail.com> wrote: [...] > run 'sed -i "6a\find /srv/cowrie/log/ -mtime +7 -name \'cowrie.*\' -delete" > cowrietest'
That's not how you escape single quotes within single quotes. Read: https://mywiki.wooledge.org/Quotes#Types_of_quoting The proper way would be: run 'sed -i "6a\find /srv/cowrie/log/ -mtime +7 -name '\''cowrie.*'\''...
