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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash function using variable in it syntax error Post 302994492 by Corona688 on Thursday 23rd of March 2017 12:56:42 PM
Old 03-23-2017
It probably means what it says, that you have unmatched quotes somewhere.

Since you don't have unmatched quotes in this section, it must be in the parts you didn't post.

I don't think this is related to your error, but this:

Code:
        for ((i=0; i<${#variant[@]}; i++))
              do printf ${CODING}:%s\n ${variant[$i]} >> /home/cmccabe/cap/TGS/out.txt
        done

should be this:

Code:
        for ((i=0; i<${#variant[@]}; i++))
              do printf "${CODING}:%s\n" "${variant[$i]}" 
        done >> /home/cmccabe/cap/TGS/out.txt

...unless you intended ${variant[]} to split, that is.
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Tk_GetCapStyle(3TK)					       Tk Library Procedures					       Tk_GetCapStyle(3TK)

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

NAME

       Tk_GetCapStyle, Tk_NameOfCapStyle - translate between strings and cap styles

SYNOPSIS

       #include <tk.h>

       int
       Tk_GetCapStyle(interp, string, capPtr)

       CONST char *
       Tk_NameOfCapStyle(cap)

ARGUMENTS

       Tcl_Interp   *interp   (in)	Interpreter to use for error reporting.

       CONST char   *string   (in)	String containing name of cap style: one of ```butt'', ``projecting'', or ``round''.

       int	    *capPtr   (out)	Pointer to location in which to store X cap style corresponding to string.

       int	    cap       (in)	Cap style: one of CapButt, CapProjecting, or CapRound.
_________________________________________________________________

DESCRIPTION

       Tk_GetCapStyle  places  in  *capPtr  the  X  cap  style corresponding to string.  This will be one of the values CapButt, CapProjecting, or
       CapRound.  Cap styles are typically used in X graphics contexts to indicate how the end-points of lines should be capped.  See the X  docu-
       mentation for information on what each style implies.

       Under normal circumstances the return value is TCL_OK and interp is unused.  If string doesn't contain a valid cap style or an abbreviation
       of one of these names, then an error message is stored in interp->result, TCL_ERROR is returned, and *capPtr is unmodified.

       Tk_NameOfCapStyle is the logical inverse of Tk_GetCapStyle.  Given a cap style such as CapButt it  returns  a  statically-allocated  string
       corresponding to cap.  If cap isn't a legal cap style, then ``unknown cap style'' is returned.

KEYWORDS

       butt, cap style, projecting, round

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |  ATTRIBUTE TYPE    | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |Availability	    | SUNWTk	      |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |Interface Stability | Uncommitted     |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
NOTES

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