I don't think you can just dump a raw number into [ ] like that without telling it what to do with that number. [ "$?" -ne 0 ] or such.
But if you just want to use the return value, do so directly. The ! reverses it to 'if not':
Coronna688,
Ouch. Yes, you're correct. In shell's test, [ "$arg" ] tests for non-empty string; not non-zero and non-empty (as in awk).
For clarity when reading a script, I don't usually use:
when the compound-list is more than about 40 characters long, but that is just my personal preference. We don't want the > /dev/null here because this code is replacing earlier code that was:
and then checking whether "$returned" expands to an empty string.
And, now for the good news...
jedzio,
Know that we know you're using bash on a Linux distro (even though it hasn't been updated for four years), I think I know what the problem is. I should have asked what editor you were using!
To get that error message from bash for the command: set -xv, you must be using an editor that uses the DOS convention of carriage-return followed by newline as the line terminator instead of the UNIX/Linux convention using only the newline.
So, I think you can get your script to work if you write this into a new file (let's call it newscript):
and then run the commands:
to remove any extraneous carriage return characters in your script and make it executable again.
Let us know what happens.
We usually only see this problem on files that have been copied from Windows systems to UNIX and Linux systems. I strongly suggest that you look at the documentation for your editor to see if there is a way to set the characters used as line terminators. If there isn't any way to set the line terminator to just a newline (AKA linefeed) character, seriously consider learning how to use vi or emacs instead of your current editor. Extraneous carriage returns in shell scripts, source code for other languages, and in data files will cause you no end of grief.
Hello...
I'm trying to run the sshd script, but I keep geting the Syntax errot message .
Here's the last few lines on the script. set nu in vi shows 58 lines, but I keep getting error referring to line 59. Any help is appreciated.
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Remi
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I need ur help is this matter, i have th ebelow script, and i keep getting this error: syntax error: unexpected end of file
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Hi,
I have problem in constructing "IF" condition.
The below code throws "tst.sh: line 10: syntax error: unexpected end of file"
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then
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fi
echo "end"
exit 0
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I am newbie to UNIX scripting. I am facing this error "syntax error: unexpected end of file" while executing the following script:
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a=$1
if
then
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I try to make it work (to duplicate two first columns in several files):
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do
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done
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Hi,
I am getting error while running the script. "syntax error: unexpected end of file"
if i do cat i cant see the content of the script also it is showing as
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if
then
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Hi,
I am brand new to this so I apologize ahead of time for any formatting problems.
I know there is a previous (closed) thread on here about this problem but I wasn't able to fix the error following the posts there so I thought I could create a new one.
Here is the error I am getting:
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