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Old 10-08-2011
Java Syntax error in sh script execution
Script:
Code:
#!/sbin/sh
echo "Welcome to my First Script"
echo "Enter a word"
read PASS
if [ "$PASS" = "intel" ] then
echo "You are correct"
elif [ "$PASS" = "apple" ] then
echo "Thats incorrect"
else
echo "Bye"
fi

When i run the script shell says:
Syntax error at line 7:'elif' is not expected

I ran through some old posts and did corrections like -> spaces within [ ],spaces on either side of '=', and also tried tracing using -x option but i am unable to find the syntax error here.
Correct me.

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# 2  
Old 10-08-2011
Code:
#!/sbin/sh
echo "Welcome to my First Script"
echo "Enter a word"
read PASS
if [ "$PASS" = "intel" ]; then
        echo "You are correct"
fi
if [ "$PASS" = "apple" ]; then
        echo "Thats incorrect"
fi
echo "bye"

---------- Post updated at 12:23 AM ---------- Previous update was at 12:17 AM ----------

this is better compare to before

Code:
#!/sbin/sh
echo "Welcome to my First Script"
echo "Enter a word"
read PASS
if [ "$PASS" = "intel" ]; then
        echo "You are correct"
exit 1
fi
if [ "$PASS" = "apple" ]; then
        echo "Thats incorrect"
exit 2
fi
echo "bye"

# 3  
Old 10-08-2011
Code:
#!/sbin/sh
echo "Welcome to my First Script"
echo "Enter a word"
read PASS
if [ "$PASS" = "intel" ]
        then echo "You are correct"
elif [ "$PASS" = "apple" ]
        then echo "Thats incorrect"
else
        echo "Bye"
fi

I'd like to use case for this scenario
Code:
#!/sbin/sh
echo "Welcome to my First Script"
read -p "Enter a word: " PASS
case "$PASS" in
        intel   ) echo "You are correct";;
        apple   ) echo "Thats incorrect";;
        *       ) echo "Bye";;
esac

# 4  
Old 10-08-2011
Thanks that works but can you throw some light on the necessity of using ';'.
Or could you tell that in terms of replacing [] with test ?
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