but I am getting ./example: 8: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")
any ideas?
I suggested some ideas in message #8 in this thread. It doesn't look like you considered anything I posted there, and the problems you're showing here seem to be the same as the problems you had then.
Is this really an exact copy of the script you ran when you got the error message above? I would have expected it to complain about line 9 instead of line 8 with the code you listed above.
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