Bash Shell Scripting Errors: ./myDemo: 56: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string [EDITED]
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syntax-error
|bash
Could someone take a look at this code and find out what's wrong with it?
#!/bin/sh
while :
do
echo " Select one of the following options:"
echo " d or D) Display today's date and time"
echo " l or L) List the contents of the present working directory"
echo " w or W) See who is logged in"
echo " p or P) Print the present working directory"
echo " a or A) List the contents of a specified directory"
echo " b or B) Create a backup copy of an ordinary file"
echo " q or Q) Quit this program"
echo " Enter your option and hit <Enter>: \c"
read option
case "$option" in
d|D) date
;;
l|L) ls $PWD
;;
w|w) who
;;
p|P) pwd
;;
a|A) echo "Please specify the directory and hit <Enter>: \c"
read directory
if [ "$directory = "q" -o "Q" ]
then
exit 0
fi
while [ ! -d "$directory" ]
do
echo "Usage: "$directory" must be a directory."
echo "Re-enter the directory and hit <Enter>: \c"
read directory
if [ "$directory" = "q" -o "Q" ]
then
exit 0
fi
done
printf ls "$directory"
;;
b|B) echo "Please specify the ordinary file for backup and hit <Enter>: \c"
read file
if [ "$file" = "q" -o "Q" ]
then
exit 0
fi
while [ ! -f "$file" ]
do
echo "Usage: \"$file\" must be an ordinary file."
echo "Re-enter the ordinary file for backup and hit <Enter>: \c"
read file
if [ "$file" = "q" -o "Q" ]
then
exit 0
fi
done
cp "$file" "$file.bkup"
;;
q|Q) exit 0
;;
esac
echo
done
exit 0
There are some syntax errors that I can't figure out. However I should note that on this unix system echo -e doesn't work (don't ask me why I don't know and I don't have any sort of permissions to change it and even if I wouldn't be allowed to)
Bash Shell Scripting Error: "./myDemo ./myDemo: line 62: syntax error near unexpected token done' ./myDemo: line 62: " [Edited]
EDIT: I fixed the while statement error, however now when I run the script some things still aren't working correctly.
It seems that in the b|B) switch statement
cp $file $file.bkup doesn't actually copy the file to file.bkup ?
In the a|A) switch statement
ls "$directory" doesn't print the directory listing for the user to see ?
#!/bin/bash
while $TRUE
do
echo " Select one of the following options:"
echo " d or D) Display today's date and time"
echo " l or L) List the contents of the present working directory"
echo " w or W) See who is logged in"
echo " p or P) Print the present working directory"
echo " a or A) List the contents of a specified directory"
echo " b or B) Create a backup copy of an ordinary file"
echo " q or Q) Quit this program"
echo " Enter your option and hit <Enter>: \c"
read option
case "$option" in
d|D) date
;;
l|L) ls pwd
;;
w|w) who
;;
p|P) pwd
;;
a|A) echo "Please specify the directory and hit <Enter>: \c"
read directory
if [ ! -d "$directory" ]
then
while [ ! -d "$directory" ]
do
echo "Usage: "$directory" must be a directory."
echo "Specify the directory and hit <Enter>: \c"
read directory
if [ "$directory" = "q" -o "Q" ]
then
exit 0
elif [ -d "$directory" ]
then
ls "$directory"
else
continue
fi
done
fi
;;
b|B) echo "Specify the ordinary file for backup and hit <Enter>: \c"
read file
if [ ! -f "$file" ]
then
while [ ! -f "$file" ]
do
echo "Usage: "$file" must be an ordinary file."
echo "Specify the ordinary file for backup and hit <Enter>: \c"
read file
if [ "$file" = "q" -o "Q" ]
then
exit 0
elif [ -f "$file" ]
then
cp $file $file.bkup
fi
done
fi
;;
q|Q) exit 0
;;
esac
echo
done
exit 0
Another thing... is there an editor that I can use to auto-parse code? I.e something similar to NetBeans?
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