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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>; 
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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


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Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040
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