Hi,
I have a shell script which runs fine when i do it from Unix simulator on Widnows.
When i try to run the same for Unix it throws me the error
syntax error at line 87: `elif' unexpected.

Piece of code for the same is

while [ "$#" != "0" ]
do
if [ "$1" = "-config" ]; then
shift
configFile="$1"
shift
elif [ "$1" = "-cvstag" ]; then
shift
CVS_TAG_NAME="$1"
shift
elif [ "$1" = "-compilejsps" ]; then
shift
COMPILE_JSPS="on"
else
shift
fi
done


Please help me out.
It gives me another error \377: not found.
If some one can share his maild id ,i can send across the file.

works fine on linux/bash.

What system/shell are you trying on?

That 377 error is weird?

$ echo -e "\377" | recode l1..
ÿ

Sounds like you have a non ascii character in your file. try runnig the following command:

cat -vet yourfile.sh | more

This will convert any funny charcters to a viewable form and mark the real end of each line with a '$'.

I am still getting the same errors after
running the command cat -vet doCodeDeployment.sh | more and executing my script.
As communciated it appended an $ at the end of each line in the script.
I have uploaded the file also.

We are trying to run them on Unix Box...

I ran it on a unix box and it worked fine...

The only question I have is if you really wanted the last elif and else condition to both run. Without the shift after COMPILE_JSPS="on", the else command ran also when the argument was -compilejsps:

while [ "$#" != "0" ]; do
if [ "$1" = "-config" ]; then
shift
configFile="$1"
echo "config $1"
shift
elif [ "$1" = "-cvstag" ]; then
shift
CVS_TAG_NAME="$1"
echo "cvstag $1"
shift
elif [ "$1" = "-compilejsps" ]; then
shift
COMPILE_JSPS="on"
echo "jsps set to $1"
shift
else
shift
echo "nothing"
fi
done

Gianni

We are trying to run this on Solaris 8.
The script runs fine on Windows using Unix emulator.
whoever tried to run the sampel piece of code above says it is fine.
We are getting an error on Solaris8.
I removed

elif [ "$1" = "-compilejsps" ]; then
shift
COMPILE_JSPS="on"
else
shift

and ran the code it,does not throw me an error but does not work...
What differences does it amke on Solaris.
The Script is attached.