Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 03:33:10AM -0700, straygrey wrote:
Please tell me what is wrong with the following line that I have in a bash
script:-
[code]
TODAYDATE=`date +"%Y%m%d"`
declare -a FiLeS=( $TODAYDATE.TeleformDB.tar.bz2
$TODAYDATE.TeleformDB2.tar.bz2 )
[/code]
When I run it I get:-
Syntax error: "(" unexpected
arc1:~$ dash
\h:\w$ x=(a b c)
dash: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
Your script is not being executed by bash. Most likely you either have
#!/bin/sh at the top of it (with /bin/sh being a link to dash or some
other shell that isn't bash), or you're typing "sh myscript" to run it.
Yep, you are correct and the solution was to place "#!/bin/bash" as the 1st
line of the script, rather than "#!/bin/sh".
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