From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [204.233.198.50] (helo=romuald.net.eu.org) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17yM8W-0004pz-00 for ; Sun, 06 Oct 2002 20:52:40 -0400 Received: (qmail 13695 invoked by uid 1023); 7 Oct 2002 00:52:03 -0000 Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 19:52:03 -0500 From: Gregory Nowak To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: hard to find error Message-ID: <20021007005203.GB13676@romuald.net.eu.org> References: <20021007003840.GA13514@lrxms.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021007003840.GA13514@lrxms.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Fi essentially means end if. You have one extra somewhere, and don't realize it. Match all the ifs with the fis, and see if they really all match. Greg On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 08:38:40PM -0400, Scott Howell wrote: > Ah, no actually errors are lying in wait, but yet here is one I can't > quite get a handle on. > I'm editing a script and I attempted to run it and got the following. It > was working, but I've obviously done something to break it. > > line 227: syntax error near unexpected token `fi' > > I am using nano and tried going to line 227 and found an fi, but it is no > different than the other cases where I'm using fi. > > Btw, what the hell is fi mean in any case. Man I need to learn some > scripting. > > tia > Scott > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup