- steve-parkers bourne sh coding tutorial
- Posted by Player on October 8th, 2003
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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- Posted by Player on October 8th, 2003
On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 02:44:53 +0100, Player wrote:
Well what-ever it was, it now seems to have corected it's self and is now
working fine.
Oh well lol nevermind people, ignore the post lol, pass it off as the mad
ravings of a begginer lol.
Regards Player
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- Posted by mjt on October 8th, 2003
Player wrote:
.... i am STILL amazed how computers can correct themselves!!!!!!!
..
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- Posted by Player on October 8th, 2003
On
It was my code after all I think
**Player looks away ashamed***
I deleted the code and re copy pasted the code from the tutorial, and it
worked lol.
Go-figure, I could of swore I made no errors.
Well I was to blame anyways 
LOL
Regards Player
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Hale to the new GODS of Earth.....
Long live the Machines
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- Posted by mjt on October 8th, 2003
Player wrote:
.... no worries, mate; it will CONTINUE to happen, as it
does to all of us!!
..
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\\\ and author: "Inside Linux", "C++ HowTo", "C++ Unleashed" ///
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