From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 7 16:10:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5DD216A4CE for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 16:10:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mailgw-20.stcloudstate.edu (exchange8.stcloudstate.edu [199.17.25.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5699C43D39 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 16:10:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bepratt@stcloudstate.edu) Received: from exchange2.campus.stcloudstate.edu [199.17.25.200] by mailgw-20.stcloudstate.edu with XWall v3.31 ; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 11:09:39 -0500 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 11:10:02 -0500 Message-ID: <22ECDF671FCD564398087D64CFCF46BD056E08D6@EXCHANGE.campus.stcloudstate.edu> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Shell script error Thread-Index: AcSshwmgrx95WNsbTd2zC9vxvNVpQAAAMUAw From: "Pratt, Benjamin E." To: "Andrew Moran" cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Shell script error X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 16:10:01 -0000 Sorry, I was using "sh test.sh" to execute the script and getting the error: test.sh: 28: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")") When I use "./test.sh" to run it things work fine. Sorry for the clutter. Ben -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Moran Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 11:02 AM To: Pratt, Benjamin E. Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shell script error That script works fine for me on my box and I'm also running FreeBSD=20 5.3-BETA with bash2. What kind of error are you getting? What is the output of "bash -x=20 " (filling in the script name of course). --Andy On Oct 7, 2004, at 7:07 AM, Pratt, Benjamin E. wrote: > Hello, it's me again. This time I'm trying to do some shell scripting > but I'm running into a problem with a randomization script that I found > on the web. The script I'm trying to run can be found at: > http://www.bsdbooks.net/shells/scripting/randomvar.html#PICKCARD. > > Everything runs fine on different Linux systems that I've used (Red Hat > 9, > Knoppix-STD, PHLAK) but when I run the script on FreeBSD or OpenBSD I > get > errors. I'm mainly running FreeBSD 5.3-BETA right now with > /shells/bash2 > installed so that's where I'd really like to get it running. > > I did change the first line to point to /usr/local/bin/bash but that > didn't make any difference. > > If anyone knows why this won't run, or if anyone has another example of > getting a random character (I'd eventually like to generate a random > hexadecimal character) I'd love to hear from you. > > Thanks, > > Ben > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to=20 > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"