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tytower · Last edited by tytower on Mon 11 Jun 2012, 16:59; edited 2 times in total

The following file is giving a syntax error on line 10

amigo · Joined: 02 Apr 2007 Posts: 1759

You don't quote the error, so we can't help much. Also, the script uses csh which is not very common anymore. You might wish to convert the script to use bash instead -of course you need to understand exactly what the script is supposed to do...
It looks as if it is a script for setting up the qt4 environment -probably being run from /etc/profile.d ??? If so, there are also bash/shell versions of that script around.

tytower · Posted: Mon 11 Jun 2012, 06:05 Post subject:

Yep thanks amigo --all true

I want to understand why line 10 does not work.
foreach qtd ( /usr/lib/qt-* )

In particular the " qt-* " piece
the * of course is a match any character
the qtd is a variable to hold the directory list element which is part of a list supplied by /usr/lib/qt-*

I dont know what the "-" does or if it is correct

The error message is as stated - Syntax error in line 10

jafadmin · Joined: 19 Mar 2009 Posts: 343

Line 9 should be commented ..

Keef · Joined: 20 Dec 2007 Posts: 428 Location: Staffordshire

It looks like that section of code is checking for a generic qt directory, or if there isn't one, use one with a version number, eg qt-4.3 or whatever.
I'm sure it could be written in many different ways.

tytower · Posted: Mon 11 Jun 2012, 16:55 Post subject:

Yes line 9 is commented . It was my mistake getting the code block to post right

Keef I agree thats what it is trying to do but it does not parse properly . Can you offer any correction or other approach ?

Here is the bash script for the same thing-It works fine

Keef · Joined: 20 Dec 2007 Posts: 428 Location: Staffordshire

I don't have qt, but it tried the first part of the script with empty folders (qt first, then qt-4)

tytower · Posted: Mon 11 Jun 2012, 17:54 Post subject:

Yes the bash script runs with no errors and gets it right
The csh script however is the one giving the error.

I notice on my machine in /etc/profile.d/ I have both versions of the script
I think an extra has been brought in from KeePassx or KeePass2 which I was trying to install

I also notice each time I open the console I get the error message in the console so it must run all the profile.d scripts each time it opens .

That is telling me I don't need qt4.csh in there anyway as it is getting set up by qt4.sh . So I removed it and am now not getting the error messages

Would still like to know why line 10 of qt4.csh gives an error as it looks OK to me too.

Keef · Joined: 20 Dec 2007 Posts: 428 Location: Staffordshire

I think it may just be that csh is just a symlink to bash, and it doesn't like the different format.
'#!/bin/csh' won't run the script on Wary 5.3, but changing it to #!/bin/sh gives

tytower · Posted: Mon 11 Jun 2012, 23:50 Post subject:

I can get it to pass through by removing the brackets but that gives me an unexpected end of file message?