Re: How to suppress warning messages for empty lines in shell scripts?

Jochen Berninger wrote:

From the command line I called (with nohup) a shell script which contains empty lines
(for better readability).

The nohup executes the script successfully but outputs a warning for the empty line:

/usr/local/joch/bin/dotest: line 3: : command not found

How can I suppress this warning (of cause without removing the empty line)?

Do I really have to always avoid empty lines in shell scripts?

The problem isn't an empty line. It's something else. You'll have to post the script for us to see what.

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