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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bourne Shell Scripting CRISIS Post 22245 by Aussie_Bloke on Thursday 30th of May 2002 05:32:01 AM
Old 05-30-2002
G'day

The problem that I've got is that I've written a Bourne Shell script, complete with case statements, and it seems that UNIX believes that there's a part missing.

The error that I receive (Ungratefully) is:
syntax error: ;; unexpected
Or at least something to the tune of this, as I know that it's dealing with the case statement, the only question is where I may be wrong, any suggestions anyone?

The only reason that I'm putting this up here is because the ;; that is being referred to is supposedly at the end of the file, where no such symbol / expression exists?

I'm beginning to think that the system is hallucinating.....

Any suggestions as to what the problem might be?
Is the system really on LSD? or is it just my s***ty programming?

Thanks all

Aussie_Bloke
 

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