I posted earlier with a problem it's here, I have edited the script a little and it tells me once more that the end of line is unexpected and I'm really lost with this one, thanks for any help.

The new version:

#!/bin/sh
case $# in
0) echo "Usage: enshar filename1 filename2 [...]" >&2
;;
*) for file
do
if [ -d $file ]
then echo "enshar: $file is a directory" >&2
elif [ ! -f $file ]
then echo "enshar: $file does not exist" >&2
elif [ ! -r $file ]
then echo "enshar: $file is not readable" >&2
elif [ -h $file ]
then echo "enshar: $file cannot enshar" >&2
exit n
else
echo "\!EnShAr!\"
set '"cksum" $file'
"test $1 = nnnnnnnnnn || echo $0: bad cksum in $file << '\!EnShAr!\'"
cat $file
fi
done
;;
esac

Use code tags!!

#!/bin/sh

if [ $# -eq 0 ] ; then
  echo "Usage: enshar filename1 filename2 [...]" >&2
  exit 1
fi
for file in "$@"
do 
    if [ -d $file ]
    then 
         echo "enshar: $file is a directory" >2    
         exit 1
    elif [ ! -f $file ]
    then 
         echo "enshar: $file does not exist" >2
         exit 1
    elif [ ! -r $file ]
    then 
         echo "enshar: $file is not readable" >2
         exit 1
    elif [ -h $file ]
    then 
         echo "enshar: $file cannot enshar" >2 
         exit 1
    fi
    cksum $file| read ck summy1 dummy2   # ck is the checksum
    echo "\!EnShAr!\ " 
    # no idea what this line is doing.   $1 cannot be used here and << makes no sense to me
    # try writing this out, not as script, but as what you want done here...
    "test $file = nnnnnnnnnn || echo $0: bad cksum in $file << '\!EnShAr!\'"
    cat $file
done

Hi, I am trying to check the file is good, can you show me how this section would be done properly but I want the same format output as originally stated, thanks for any help

define "good" - it looks like you are writing a scripted front-end for shar....

okay, i'm checking that the file is enshared correctly , that theres no proplems that have happened during it being not archived and then it being, not quite sure of the method you see, just been playing around with it but I have not got it to work correctly yet so wondered if there was someone who knew more about it then me, again thnks for any help offered

I can shed some light here. Look at your earlier code:

     echo "cat > $file <<\!EnShAr!"
              cat $file
              echo "!EnShAr!"
              echo "set `cksum $file`"
              echo "cksum" $file`
              check=$1
              echo "test $1 = $check || echo $0: Bad cksum in $file >&2 " >> shar
              echo "cat > $file <<\!EnShAr!" >> shar