RE: Shell script error

[Andrew Moran]

The reason that works on Linux and not on FreeBSD is that on Linux "sh" is 
really bash.  On FreeBSD, sh is the bourne shell and bash is bash.   Bash 
will run all sh scripts, but sh will not run all bash scripts.   Bash 
extends the sh language.  That script is a bash script, not a sh script.

--Andy
Friends may come and go but enemies accumulate.
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Pratt, Benjamin E. wrote:
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
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Subject: Re: Shell script error
That script works fine for me on my box and I'm also running FreeBSD
5.3-BETA with bash2.
What kind of error are you getting?   What  is the output of "bash -x
<scriptname.sh>" (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
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