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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Syntax error with a script Post 302377365 by simpsonjr on Thursday 3rd of December 2009 11:09:21 PM
Old 12-04-2009
Syntax error with a script

Hi

I not sure what is wrong with my script... when I try to run it I get the follow error: "remove: syntax error at line 77: `end of file' unexpected" Thanks in advance for any help.

Code:
ans=y
while [ "$ans" = "y" ]
do
          while :
          do

                echo "Please enter a name that you want to remove /c"
                read name

                if [ $name" = "" ]
                then
                     echo "You have not enter a name"
                     echo "Please try again."
                     continue

                else
                     echo "Searching for $name in the phonebook"
                     break

                fi
        done

        clear

        grep -in "$name" phonebook | sed -n -e 's/^/\
                                /' -e 's/:/\
                                /gp'
        while :
        do
                echo "Please enter the record that you want to remove:"
                read number

                total=`cat phonebook|wc -1`

                if [ "$number" != "" ]
                then if [ $number -ge 1 -a $number -le $total ]

                        then
                                echo "Removing record"
                                break

                        else

                                echo "You did select a vaild record"
                                echo "Please try again"
                                continue

                        fi

                else

                        echo "You didn't enter a record number"
                        continue
                fi
        done

        sed "$number"d phonebook > phonebook.tmp
        mv phonebook.tmp phonebook

        echo "Do you want to remove another record? (y/n) \c"
        read ans
done

I think it may have to do with my indentation however the script will not paste properly on the board.

Last edited by pludi; 12-04-2009 at 03:12 AM.. Reason: code tags, please...
 

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IMON(8) 						    Linux System Administration 						   IMON(8)

NAME
imon - watch ISDN activities SYNOPSIS
imon [ -q] [-p phonebook] DESCRIPTION
imon is a ncurses based utility for watching ISDN activity. OPTIONS
-q If this option is given, the facility of terminatig the program by pressing 'Q' is disabled and the signals SIGHUP and SIGINT are caught. This option is intended for starting imon from within an rc script with redirecting input/output to some otherwise unused virtual console at boot time. -p phonebook is used to supply imon with a phonebook file. The format of a phonebook file is very simple: Every line has two elements separated by a TAB. The first element is a phone number which can contain wildcards. The second element is a descriptive string. For each active connection, this string is shown instead the phone number. Pressing 'S' toggles between display of strings and phone numbers. Pressing 'R' rereads the phonebook file in case of changes during program execution. AUTHOR
Fritz Elfert <fritz@isdn4linux.de> SEE ALSO
ttyI(4), isdnctrl(8), isdninfo(4). isdn4k-utils-3.1pre4 1999/09/06 IMON(8)
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