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From: daved@physiol.su.oz.au (Dave Davey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Help: syntax error in shell script
Message-ID: <1770@physiol.su.oz.au>
Date: 11 Jun 91 12:41:49 GMT
References: <1991Jun10.145413.48155@ccvax.ucd.ie>
Organization: Physiology Dept., Univ. of Sydney, NSW, Australia
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In <1991Jun10.145413.48155@ccvax.ucd.ie> cdohert@ccvax.ucd.ie writes:

->Hi Unix Wizards,
->I am attempting to write my first shell script and I'm perplexed
->by the error message I'm getting from the shell parser.
->The script is as follows

->for network in 1 2 3 5 10 20 30
->do
->     `expulse` $network 0
->     if test -f pulse.${network}.net
->     then `cascor1.3` <<!
->         pulse.${network}.net
	......
	......
	......
	......
	......
->         !
         ^^^^^
	 The indent may look pretty, but the shell is looking for a line
	 starting with a '!', not white space.