Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, a script was used on Windows using MKS Toolkit. I'm trying to move it to a unix machine but it gets all errors. At first I had things like: syntax error: `in^M' unexpected

I still get these but I've been building it up slowly to try and find/remove problems. The current is: syntax error: `while' unmatched

It's not even letting me do a while loop. Anyone notice the problem?

Code:

while :
do
read ANS?"text..."
echo $ANS
esac
done

When I include:

Code:

trap "stty sane;echo '\n\n   *** Abnormal exit ***';exit" 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 15

I get: trap: bad signal 15

Thanks for any help.

The actual script looks like this: http://pastebin.ca/1891102

Code:

while :
do
  echo "text..."
  read ANS
  echo $ANS

done

That is an infinite loop, meaning it won't end unless the user presses ctrl/c or maybe ctrl/d.

You cannot trap signal 9. The error you have is that signal 15 is apparently not defined on your system.

Code:

kill -l

That is a lowercase -L will show you the signals on your system.

while transfering the files from Windows using ftp set the transmission mode as "Ascii" instead of Binary in order to avoid ^M characters.

Thanks expert...I set it to text transfer & it worked fine. Now I　ｊｕｓｔ　ｈａｖｅ　ｔo go through figuring out why errors appear =]
Any idea why:

Code:

export ORCL_SQL="${HKTMP}/orcl.sql"
>$ORCL_SQL
[[ -s $ORCL_SVC ]] || return
cat << _EOT_ >$ORCL_SQL
...

Would lead to the error: cannot create /hk_9.2/tmp/orcl.sql: No such file or directory ?

I'm logged in as a super user~ (oracle) so it shouldn't be a privileges issue. The file already exists in the folder.

Please post the output of:

Code:

id
ls -lad /hk_9.2
ls -ald /hk_9.2/tmp
ls -lad /hk_9.2/tmp/orcl.sql

Hi,

Sorry that was a problem of not referencing correctly in the variables. Instead of currentfolder/deeperfolder like in Windows I had the variable just refer to the deeper folder. I now have a problem where it says: CAT: not found

I've googled but haven't found this problem and the line just points to a "}". Has anyone come across this error before & is able to suggest a reason?

Thanks for help.

UNIX, unlike Windows, is case-sensitive concerning path names and commands. Check your script if you're perhaps calling the "cat" utility as "CAT".