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Old 02-17-2010
cygwin shell script error
Hi,

I have a cywin test script as below but errors,

Code:
#!/usr/bin/bash
while [ 1 != 0 ]
do
   echo "123"
   echo "456"
done

sh-3.2$ ./test.sh
./test.sh: line 7: syntax error: unexpected end of file

Please help...

Thanks!
Victor
Last edited by zaxxon; 02-17-2010 at 06:23 AM.. Reason: use code tags
# 2  
Old 02-17-2010
Code:
while [ 1 -ne 0 ]

(Reference)
# 3  
Old 02-17-2010
Because you are editing on Windows and the line feeds are different on Windows and Unix you have to use dos2unix on that file before running it (dos2unix test.sh test.sh).
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Old 02-18-2010
Hi,

Thank you all very much. It works!

Victor
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