steve-parkers bourne sh coding tutorial
From: Player (Architect_at_Matrix.com)
Date: 10/08/03
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Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 02:44:53 +0100
Hi all :)
At http://steve-parker.org/sh/sh.shtml there is a bourne shell
programming tutorial by the name of, sh-0.7/sh.shtml that is as one
would expect a tutorial for people who want to learn bash shell
programming.
Well I dl'd that tutorial as I am teaching myself linux and though bash
programming along with perl would be very good knowledge to have up-stairs
mingled in with the old grey matter :)
Anyways in the Loops section of that tutorial, there is a section called
While Loops and a rather small scripty showing the use of a while loop,
the source follows below....
#!/bin/sh
INPUT_STRING=hello
while [ "$INPUT_STRING" != "bye" ]
do
echo "Please type something in (bye to quit)"
read INPUT_STRING
echo "You typed: $INPUT_STRING"
done
.....well I created this little script in emacs and wrote the very exact
same code into a script called while.sh.
I did a 'chmod 755 while.sh' so as to make the script active as such, and
expected as most would of, to get a script that would simple loop echo'ing
the txt...
You typed: <what i did type>
...untill I typed 'bye', were then it would halt the loop and the script
would finish and stop.
Thing is though I did not get what I expected, and I got this error
instead....
./while.sh: line 7: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
./while.sh: line 9: syntax error: unexpected end of file
...so could someone explain to me just whats going on? or were it is going
wrong? lol.
I assure everyone that I have the exact same code as is in the tutorial,
in my script, because thinking I was blind, I deleted what I had typed and
simply copy pasted the source out of the tutorial and into my script,
thinking I was blind and simply couldn't see the mistake.
I have noticed quite a few spelling mistakes and typos within the
tutorial, and as a begginer to linux and shell coding, this is bad as I am
totaly relying on the tutorials info being true to it's word.
I am thinking that there might be an error in the source somewere,
were as a begginer I
wouldn't know about it :)
Anyways can someone please help me out a little, because I very much stuck
lol.
Regards Player
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