Did you mean "for i in..." rather than "for in..."? don't know why that would cause that particular error, but it looks wrong to leave out the i. --le ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <ma-linux at tux.org>; <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>; <blinux-list-bounces at redhat.com> Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 10:03 AM Subject: Bash Problem I'm confused over some simple bash syntax. If I write the following at the bash (ver 3.0) prompt, all works as expected--no errors. But, if I execute from a script file (which begins with a #!/bin/bash of course), I get: line 4: syntax error near unexpected token `then' What am I missing? All help much appreciated. for in $( ls); do if [ "$i" != "incoming/" ]; then echo $i fi done -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
