Re: Re Creating Email Notification - att: Alan Connor

From: Alan Connor (alanconnor_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 09/04/03 

Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 07:23:18 GMT

On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 11:30:16 +1000, Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws@myaccess.com.au> wrote:
>
>
> Hi again Alan.
>
> You gave me a script with an entry in .bashrc starting:
>
> news () {
>
> (That's a curly brace. It doesn't look like it as I type.)
>
> Now every time I open a Konsole it has two lines:
>
> 'ash: /home/doug/.bashrc: line 10: syntax error near unexpected token `{
> 'ash: /home/doug/.bashrc: line 10: `news () {
>
> My shell is bash. It is usually spelled correctly in these messages.
>
> What is wrong?
>
> Doug.

Hey Doug. I don't remember the function, exactly.

Is the other, closing bracket there? (On its own line.) i
Is there a space after that first one?

$ cat -e .bashrc | less

will show you where the newlines are.

m () {

        fetchmail && if [ -s ~/Mail/inbox ] ;
        then rhn ;
        sleep 3 ;
        mutt ;
        fi ;

}

That's a VERY correct function, with the ";" wherever a newline would be.

There's no spaces after the curly brackets, and no tabs. I use that function
ALL the time. (rhn is a script)

It wouldn't hurt to repost the function. I may be able to improve on it.

Alan C 

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