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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash (Ubuntu server): Syntax error: "|" unexpected in While-loop Post 302556805 by Corona688 on Monday 19th of September 2011 03:15:03 PM
Old 09-19-2011
You've got ; | If you want to pipe, you shouldn't end in ;, because ; means "end this command and start a new one".

Also, that \ in the middle of the line probably isn't doing what you want. It probably was there originally to combine two lines into one but now it's combining a line you don't want to be part of the statement, "done", into the statement. Ditch it.

I'd reorganize it as this:

Code:
#! /bin/sh
while IFS=';' read  u1 u2 p2
do 
	imapsync --buffersize 8192000 --nosyncacls --subscribe \
                --syncinternaldates --debug --host1 mail.server.com --user1 "$u1" \
                --authuser1 administrator@server.com --password1 Password --ssl1 \
                --port1 993 --host2 mail.server.net --user2 "$u2" --password2 "$p2" \
                --authmech2 PLAIN --ssl2 --port2 993 |
                        tee "$u1".log
done < userinfo.csv
exit

 

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