On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 08:09:31 -0600, Dennis Wicks (w...@mgssub.com) wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> When I run anything that is actually a shell script starting with
> #!/bin/sh and maybe any thing that uses a shell function I get five or
> six screens full of messages that look like the following and all start
> with /bin/sh
>
> /bin/sh: _openssl: line 25: syntax error near
> `unexpected token `('
> /bin/sh: _openssl: line 25: ` -@(in|out|oid))'
> /bin/sh: error importing function definition for
> `_openssl'
> /bin/sh: _service: line 4: syntax error in
> conditional expression: unexpected token `('
> /bin/sh: _service: line 4: syntax error near `@(*'
> /bin/sh: _service: line 4: ` [[ ${COMP_WORDS[0]} !=
> @(*init.d/!(functions|~)|service) ]] && return 0;'
>
> One example is /usr/bin/bashbug
>
> but all scripts that start with #!/bin/sh
> seem to have the problem.
>
> One function that has the problem is one I wrote that does an ls and
> pipes it to less. As follows;
>
> function lm ()
> {
> ls -laNF "$@" | $(which less)
> }
>
>
> Anybody have any idea about what is causing these errors
> or where to look?
What is the output from
ls -la /bin/sh
please Dennis?
I think it should be something like:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2008-06-17 21:20 /bin/sh -> bash
and if not, then that could be a starting place.
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