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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting line 85: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"' Post 302323389 by Freakhan on Sunday 7th of June 2009 12:33:49 PM
Old 06-07-2009
Thanks for the reply mate.
I tested the sed lines and they are giving me exactly the results i want.All its doing is, replacing all the characters in a word to "-----"...
The error is...

: line 85: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'.....which is this line
read -p "$p1 please enter the number of tries you wish to have:" lifeline
: line 96: syntax error: unexpected end of file.....which is the last line after main
 

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line(1)                                                            User Commands                                                           line(1)

NAME
line - read one line SYNOPSIS
line DESCRIPTION
The line utility copies one line (up to and including a new-line) from the standard input and writes it on the standard output. It returns an exit status of 1 on EOF and always prints at least a new-line. It is often used within shell files to read from the user's terminal. EXIT STATUS
Exit status is: 0 Successful completion >0 End-of-file on input. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
sh(1), read(2), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 1 Feb 1995 line(1)
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