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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting ERROR: `(' is not expected. Post 302764469 by Elvis on Thursday 31st of January 2013 02:03:25 PM
Old 01-31-2013
ERROR: `(' is not expected.

Hi All,

I have written a shell script which works all right on bash shell, but when it comes to execute it using ksh on AIX it gives the following error:Smilie

Code:
    bash$ /bin/ksh getShortInfo.sh 
    getShortInfo.sh[10]: syntax error at line 26 : `(' unexpected

Could you please indicate what is wrong? In addition, if you could indicate how can I make it portable on bash/ksh/csh would be really appreciated.

Please you can find below the guilty part of the script:

Code:
#!/bin/sh

COMMANDS=""
file_name='systemInfo.txt'
OS_TYPE=`uname`


getCommandsSpecificOS(){
    AIX_COMMANDS[0]="hostname"

    SunOS_COMMANDS[1]="uname -a"
    SunOS_COMMANDS[2]="ulimit -a"

    Linux_COMMANDS[0]="hostname"
    Linux_COMMANDS[3]="cat /proc/cpuinfo"
    Linux_COMMANDS[4]="cat /proc/meminfo"

    if   [ $1 = "AIX" ]; then 
        COMMANDS=("${AIX_COMMANDS[@]}")
    elif [ $1 = "SunOS" ]; then 
        COMMANDS=("${SunOS_COMMANDS[@]}")
    elif [ $1 = "Linux" ]; then 
        COMMANDS=("${Linux_COMMANDS[@]}")

    fi
}

###################################################################################################

getCommandsSpecificOS $OS_TYPE




Thanks in advance indeed,
Regards,
Elvis


Last edited by Scrutinizer; 02-05-2013 at 10:07 AM.. Reason: code tags
 

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