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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string Post 302297470 by DukeNuke2 on Friday 13th of March 2009 02:04:33 PM
Old 03-13-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by evilSerph
Code:
#!/bin/sh

  elif test $num1<0
    then
      {
        echo "I'm sorry, the value you entered is invalid"
        echo "Please enter a number that is greater than zero."
        read num1
        echo "The number you entered is $num1"
        Total = `expr $Total + $num1`" 
      }
  
fi

delete the red "
 

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