Originally I posted this to the shell script forum but it is probably better suited here.

For the life of me I cannot get the if statement in this very simple shell script to execute.

my dummy.sh looks as follows ...
#!/bin/bash
echo "coming in ...."
echo "I can not get this simple statement to execute"
if [ "foo" = "foo" ]; then
echo "expression is true"
fi
echo "leaving...."

the output I'm getting is when running the script is ...

coming in ....
I can not get this simple statement to execute
dummy_g5.sh: line 9: syntax error: unexpected end of file

Appreciate your help.

As you have typed the script, it runs for me if I copy it off the screen. You may have a typo in the script that is not in the text here shown or hidden non-printing junk characters in your text.

This is a duplicate of this thread:

missing the obvious, unexpected end of file

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