Thanks for your reply. That would certainly help. Regards, Ken
-----Original Message----- From: Chet Ramey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 9:51 PM To: Ken Failbus Cc: Andreas Schwab; bug-bash@gnu.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: bash -n doesn't seem to catch all syntax errors... Ken Failbus wrote: > So how can bash script syntax be verified that includes shopt??? > Is there more option on bash syntax command-line check that would make it identify this grammar??? One uses the `-O' invocation option to enable and disable shopt options at execution time. You would use `bash -O extglob -n scriptname'. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Live Strong. No day but today. Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/