Re: bash script error in array definition.

[Alf Stockton]

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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