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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers What's wrong on this script? Post 302583136 by kotsos13 on Monday 19th of December 2011 04:56:36 PM
Old 12-19-2011
What's wrong on this script?

I get this error on these lines when i run this script:"[: `)' expected,found 20
What am i doing wrong?

Code:
for i in /home;do

file2=`ls -s $i`

if [ \( $file2 -ge $2 \) -a \( $file2 -le $3 \) ];then

ls - s $i

fi
done

 

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is  a  text formatter.	Its input consists of the text to be out-
put, intermixed with formatting commands.  A  formatting  command
is  a  line  containing  the  control character followed by a two
character command name, and possibly one or more arguments.   The
control  character is initially . (dot).  The formatted output is
produced on standard output.  The formatting commands are  listed
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  .ds	  Double space the output. Same as .ls 2.
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  .eh t   Even page header title is set to t.
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  .m3 n   Insert n (1) blank lines between end of text and footer.
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  .ul n   Underline the letters and numbers in the next n lines.
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