From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.11]) by lists01.pubmisc.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id x0DI8FSS020411 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2019 13:08:15 -0500 Received: by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) id 30FB212A6F; Sun, 13 Jan 2019 18:08:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx1.redhat.com (ext-mx04.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.110.28]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 215CC5C48E for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2019 18:08:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.carmickle.com (mail.carmickle.com [69.164.218.211]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8655680461 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2019 18:08:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from portkey.lan (unknown [176.230.184.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.carmickle.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EC9BE3DE41DB for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2019 18:08:09 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2019 18:08:06 +0000 (GMT) X-X-Sender: geoff@portkey.home To: Linux for blind general discussion Subject: Re: bash undocumented syntax error In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (DEB 23 2013-08-11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=quitelikely.com; s=20160808-mail; t=1547402890; bh=+aAWvC5x/gMjDZMMvQiHMUkiCZtTk/Ja+GrKXYI/T3s=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=ybv9tTCk+0nKt/Cbc+4RU6HUpEJNMa4o3/YZUoXogXaRZNuCbcGiC+eB3mMgm7dKChopAGNSUtIxYZVeAJ1ZYKq9TYircbJQkFgNEjBv4cyN5AYroz1AnwGs6spbewV239N3oAvnrOb+txG+ViySfmn2ngqxEAxrSq5ngZ0fEMg= X-Greylist: Sender passed SPF test, ACL 238 matched, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.28]); Sun, 13 Jan 2019 18:08:12 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: inspected by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.28]); Sun, 13 Jan 2019 18:08:12 +0000 (UTC) for IP:'69.164.218.211' DOMAIN:'mail.carmickle.com' HELO:'mail.carmickle.com' FROM:'geoff@QuiteLikely.com' RCPT:'' X-RedHat-Spam-Score: -0.101 (DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU, SPF_PASS) 69.164.218.211 mail.carmickle.com 69.164.218.211 mail.carmickle.com X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.78 on 10.5.110.28 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.11 X-loop: blinux-list@redhat.com From: Linux for blind general discussion X-BeenThere: blinux-list@redhat.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: junk Reply-To: blinux-list@redhat.com List-Id: Linux for blind general discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2019 18:08:15 -0000 On Sun, 13 Jan 2019, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > The man page has nothing on unexpected end of file in it; searching for > unexpected in that man page provides no mention of unexpected. Possibly I've missed the context for this if it's a new thread resulting from a previous one (I am not up-to-date on this list). The error seems pretty self-explanatory. Bash expected more input when it reached the end. I would expect that it was either looking for a closing quote (single or double) or a closing bracket of some sort. what are you trying to do? Cheers, Geoff.