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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Badly placed ()'s. - error Post 302140359 by amitrajvarma on Friday 12th of October 2007 04:17:44 AM
Old 10-12-2007
Badly placed ()'s. - error
Hi,

when I execute the below script, I am getting following error "Badly placed ()'s". can anyone please help me fix
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# Usage: ani -n -a -s -w -d
#
#
# help_ani() To print help
#

help_ani()
{
echo "Usage: $0 -n -a -s -w -d"
echo "Options: These are optional argument"
echo " -n name of animal"
echo " -a age of animal"
echo " -s sex of animal "
echo " -w weight of animal"
echo " -d demo values (if any of the above options are used "
echo " their values are not taken)"
exit 1
}
#
#Start main procedure
#
#
#Set default value for variable
#
isdef=0
na=Moti
age="2 Months"
sex=Male
weight=3Kg
#
#if no argument
#
if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
help_ani()
fi
while getopts n:a:s:w:d opt
do
case "$opt" in
n) na="$OPTARG";;
a) age="$OPTARG";;
s) sex="$OPTARG";;
w) weight="$OPTARG";;
d) isdef=1;;
/?) help_ani;;
esac
done

if [ $isdef -eq 0 ]
then
echo "Animal Name: $na, Age: $age, Sex: $sex, Weight: $weight (user define mode)"
else
na="Pluto Dog"
age=3
sex=Male
weight=20kg
echo "Animal Name: $na, Age: $age, Sex: $sex, Weight: $weight (demo mode)"
fi
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THx

Amit
 

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gd_endianness(3)						      GETDATA							  gd_endianness(3)

NAME

       gd_endianness -- report the byte sex of fields in a dirfile

SYNOPSIS

       #include <getdata.h>

       unsigned long gd_endianness(DIRFILE *dirfile, int fragment_index);

DESCRIPTION

       The  gd_endianness() function queries a dirfile(5) database specified by dirfile and returns the byte sex for the fragment indexed by frag-
       ment_index.  The byte sex of a fragment indicate the endianness of data stored in binary files associated with RAW fields  defined  in  the
       specified fragment.  The endianness of a fragment containing no RAW fields is not meaningful.

       The dirfile argument must point to a valid DIRFILE object previously created by a call to gd_open(3).

RETURN VALUE

       Upon  successful  completion, gd_endianness() returns the byte sex of the specified fragment, which will be either GD_BIG_ENDIAN or GD_LIT-
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       Possible error values are:

       GD_E_BAD_DIRFILE
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	       The supplied index was out of range.

       The dirfile error may be retrieved by calling gd_error(3).  A descriptive error string for the last error encountered can be obtained  from
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       gd_alter_endianness(3), gd_getdata(3), gd_error(3), gd_error_string(3), gd_open(3), dirfile(5), dirfile-format(5)

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