Syntax error, puzzling

Fred Goldman · #1 (**permalink**) 04-21-2009

I am just learning over here unix scripting and the OS in general.

I wrote this script (with some great help from you guys here) when I test at my desktop with cygwin it works fine, but when I take it to work and try it on the Solaris 2 system there I get an error on line 4 syntax error "fileArray". So I tried putting spaces in befor and after the = sign and I got a syntax error on line 4 character "(". This is all very puzzling to me. I would very grateful if someone could help.

I don't know if this is important, but my shell tool says on top it says it is tcsh.

Here is the full script:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/sh
echo "[CTO][GSR]/ /  /|ql|[CTE]
[DOWN]" > C:/Test/File
fileArray=($(find . -maxdepth 1 -name 'P*' -type f))
tLen=${#fileArray[@]}
echo "$tLen"
for (( i=1; i<${tLen}; i++ ));
do 
echo "[CTO][GSR]/ /  /|ql|[CTE]
[DOWN]" >> C:/Test/File
done
for file in /usr/tmp
do
    rm "$file"
done

vgersh99 · #2 (**permalink**) 04-21-2009

this looks like a 'bash' script - change

Code:

#!/usr/bin/sh

TO

Code:

#!/usr/bin/bash

Fred Goldman · #3 (**permalink**) 04-21-2009

That's correct, I wrote this as a bash script, but when I tried running it today at work it wouldn't run, so I changed it to sh.

I thought that the syntax was very similar. I thought that bash just added some features to sh.

Fred Goldman · #4 (**permalink**) 04-21-2009

Is there any way to edit this script so that it is compatible with sh?

Fred Goldman · #5 (**permalink**) 04-22-2009

I think I might have this figured out:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/sh
echo -n > C:/Test/File
for file in P*
do 
echo "[CTO][GSR]/ /  /|ql|[CTE]
[DOWN]" >> C:/Test/File
done
cd usr/tmp
for file in *
do
    rm "$file"
done

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