bash errorif: Expression Syntax

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 07:05:50AM -0800, J. Qiang Li wrote:
> hello, all
> 
> i have a simple bash script that giving me problem under solaris.
> 
> run "source my_script", got error: "if: Expression Syntax" 

Why are you using source?  sh/bash uses . not source.  csh uses source
and you can't source an sh/bash script when running csh.  You can run it
though, which is what ./script does.  sh script would have also worked.
Most likely it is just that whatever shell you are in doesn't do sh
syntax if statements.

> then i chmod +x on my_script and invoke it with ./my_script , it worked. why? i am including this
> script as postinstall in a solaris package, it failed to get invoked at the postinstall stage. how
> do i fix that?
> 
> it's a simple script as 
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> if [ -e 'file' ]; then
>   echo "something"
> fi

Looks fine.

Len Sorensen
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml