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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting syntax error near unexpected token `for file in Post 302489237 by Chubler_XL on Wednesday 19th of January 2011 10:35:22 PM
Old 01-19-2011
I would suggest that the file is probably in DOS format (<CR> characters on the end of each line). Use dos2unix to fix it, and then get rid of the ; on the end of each line.

Also, you don't need a for loop to count the lines in the output files, so you can replace:
Code:
for file in $location$original???
do
    wc -l $location$original???
    break
done;

with: wc -l $location$original???

Use printf (or echo) not print:
Code:
printf "$file has been renamed to $prefix.$output"

 

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