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Old 08-26-2008
cfajohnson: You are right about the csh part -- I misremembered some part of Why do some scripts start with #! ... ?

Still, the error message doesn't really support the hypothesis of a superfluous backtick, IMHO; I'm guessing it's a problem of unpaired quotes or some such.
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Old 08-26-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by era
Still, the error message doesn't really support the hypothesis of a superfluous backtick
On the contrary, that's exactly what the error message does say:
Quote:
/menu_script.sh: line 21: syntax error near unexpected token `in
/menu_script.sh: line 21: ` case "$yourch" in
The first line says there is an unexpected backtick; the second lists it.
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Old 08-26-2008
Just plain "in" as a command produces the same error message for me. If you have something like

Code:
yourch="oops\"   # accidentally backslashed closing quote producing multi-line string
case "$yourch" in whatever

the error message is different, but I'm speculating that something along those lines might be the expanation, still.

I'm not saying there isn't a backquote too many somewhere, just that the backquote before the `in' seems to be part of the error message's formatting (but then the closing single quote is missing), at least the way it looks here, with bash.

Be that as it may, the original poster had better either post the code exactly as it is (for example, the double quotes around "$yourch" in the error message also don't match the posted code), or look closely for superfluous quotes of all kinds on his own.
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Old 08-26-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by era
Just plain "in" as a command produces the same error message for me.

My apologies. You are quite right. I was thrown off by the missing apostrophe.
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