Korn Shell script not running - Shell Programming and Scripting

Asty · #1 08-11-2006

I am sorry, this is really trivial, yet I am not able to understand what the problem is!
I am using korn shell and running this script

Code:

#!/bin/ksh
keep=3
while [ $keep -eq 1 ]; do
echo $keep
keep=$(($keep-1))
done

I am getting this error:

Code:

`keep=$' unexpected

I am not able to understand it because

Code:

keep=$(($keep-1))

works fine on prompt.

Please help regarding this.
Thanks
Asty

Perderabo · #2 08-11-2006

Your script did not generate that error when I ran it. I changed -eq to -ne so it would loop and still no trouble.

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