11-27-2008
Syntax error on variable assignment
Hello all,
I have "inherited" a Korn shell script I'm supposed to maintain, and running a "sh -n" on it, I got this syntax error:
script.sh: syntax error at line 63: `OB_DEVICE=$' unexpected
The line in cause is the first occurence of the usage of perl one-liners. The whole line:
OB_DEVICE=$(perl -e '$res =`obtool lsdev`; if ($res =~ /drive[\s]+([\w]+)/) { print $1; exit }')
I have tried to figure out what is exactly the syntax error here (because the variable assignment is correct!), I want to clean up the script.
Could somebody help me out?
Thank you,
Adrian
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