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From: "Laura Eaves" <leaves1@carolina.rr.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Bash Problem
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 18:38:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <008601c54c43$0b8bac70$6401a8c0@geekspeak> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050428140324.GA20658@rednote.net>

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@rednote.net>
To: <ma-linux@tux.org>; <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>; 
<blinux-list-bounces@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
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Janina Sajka
 ` David Bruzos
   ` Janina Sajka
   ` Sean McMahon
 ` Kirk Reiser
 ` Lorenzo Taylor
 ` Laura Eaves [this message]
 Dawes, Stephen
 ` Janina Sajka
 Dawes, Stephen

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