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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting shell scripting error Post 302301882 by phone_book on Sunday 29th of March 2009 01:58:13 AM
Old 03-29-2009
shell scripting error
i am trying to work on a simple shell script as

Code:
#!/bin/bash
filename = $2
if [ "$1" = "-cat" ]; then
echo " Displaying the Content of the file:"
filename = $2
cat filename
else
if [ "$1" = "-ls"]; then
echo "Displaying directory listing:"
ls -l filename
else
echo " Commands not correct:"
fi
done


it shows the error
line 14: syntax error near unexpected token 'done'
line 14: 'done'
i am using bash shell in ubantu..

thank you and regards

edit by bakunin: please use CODE-Tags when posting code. It greatly enhances readability and it cheers up the venerable cfajohnson to no end. I have inserted them now for you.
Last edited by bakunin; 03-30-2009 at 06:18 AM..
 

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shells(4)							   File Formats 							 shells(4)

NAME

       shells - shell database

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/shells

DESCRIPTION

       The shells file contains a list of the shells on the system. Applications use this file to determine whether a shell is valid. See getuser-
       shell(3C). For each shell a single line should be present, consisting of the shell's path, relative to root.

       A hash mark (#) indicates the beginning of a comment; subsequent characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by  the  routines
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       /bin/tcsh,  /bin/zsh,  /sbin/jsh,  /sbin/sh,  /usr/bin/bash,  /usr/bin/csh,  /usr/bin/jsh,  /usr/bin/ksh,  /usr/bin/pfcsh,  /usr/bin/pfksh,
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FILES

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SEE ALSO

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