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Old 11-27-2008
Syntax error on variable assignment
Hello all,

I have "inherited" a Korn shell script I'm supposed to maintain, and running a "sh -n" on it, I got this syntax error:

script.sh: syntax error at line 63: `OB_DEVICE=$' unexpected

The line in cause is the first occurence of the usage of perl one-liners. The whole line:

OB_DEVICE=$(perl -e '$res =`obtool lsdev`; if ($res =~ /drive[\s]+([\w]+)/) { print $1; exit }')

I have tried to figure out what is exactly the syntax error here (because the variable assignment is correct!), I want to clean up the script.

Could somebody help me out?

Thank you,
Adrian
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Old 11-27-2008
There is nothing wrong with the syntax. What shell and version are you using?
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Old 11-27-2008
The script is written in ksh, and the version I found out with "set -o emacs" and then "Ctrl-V" is Version M-11/16/88i

Is this the 1988 version of the Korn shell?
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