Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,
I had this syntax and no matter what I do, I can't get it run.
err message:
run6[101]: syntax error at line 121 : `(' unexpected


I went to line 121 and it's comment out!

All the variables passed to nawk are valid.

There are two places I suspect have the problem:
1.
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#/bin/nawk -v interviewerorg="$interviewerorg" -v interviewdate="$interviewd
ate" -v respond="$i" -v text="$text" '{printf "%8s %4s %5s %s\n", interviewdate
interviewerorg respond text}' >> respondent.tex.tmp.$$

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2.
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for i in `/bin/nawk -F"|" '{ print $1 }' bct.comp.tmp.$$ | /bin/sort -u`
do
#things to do here
done
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This drives me crazy. Will someone tell me what I should do here?


Thanks!

I doubt that the error is where you think it is. Ignore the line numbers. There are two ways to find something like this.

1 search for each ( since one of them follows something wrong.

2 copy the script to a temp file. Run the temp file and reproduce the error. Now pull some stuff out...for example, remove the nawk statements and replace them with "echo nawk went here. Remove a little at a time and try to run the script after each removal. You just need to reach the point where the shell can parse the script. It's ok that the script can't do anything useful after you remove stuff.

My script stopped right here. I didn't get any message.

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/usr/bin/nawk -v interviewerorg="$interviewerorg" '{ printf("%4s\n",interviewerorg) }' >> respondent.tex.tmp.$$

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Can you tell any syntax error fomr this?

I don't see any input being redirected into it from a pipe or shell. So it will read from stdin. If that's a file, it should be alright. If not it will read from the tty.

But this has nothing to do with :
run6[101]: syntax error at line 121 : `(' unexpected