Syntax error at line 150 : `((' is not expected.

[jaya kemmannu]

Hi,

In my shell script i am getting below error. Can anyone help me to rectify this.

/./software/com/np/scripts/NP_Mediation.sh[113]: Syntax error at line 150 : `((' is not expected

if [ $flag != '0' ] ;then
for ((i=1; i<=$FTP_HOST_COUNT; i++))
do
#sendNPMediationFiles $i $deltafilename $SUMMARYFILEPREFIX-`echo $GenFileChange|cut -d- -f2-8`
sendNPMediationFiles $i $deltafilename $SUMMARYFILEPREFIX-`echo $deltafilename|cut -d- -f2-8`
done
fi

thanks and regards,
JOY

[Matthew Brown]

Try adding some additional spaces, so the (( and )) are separate from the contents.

[jaya kemmannu]

Hello,

I tried below things but got same error. The same script work fine in RHEL but not in HP-UX server.

for ((i=1; i<=$FTP_HOST_COUNT; i++))

for (( i=1; i<=$FTP_HOST_COUNT; i++ ))

for ( (i = 1; i <= $FTP_HOST_COUNT; i++ ) )

Regards,
Joy

[Tim Holloway]

The "((" expression evaluation syntax is a characteristic of the Linux bash shell. Other shells/shell implementations may interpret (no pun intended) things differently.

For the case illustrated, I'm not sure what having double-parentheses is supposed to accomplish, regardless.

[jaya kemmannu]

Hi Tim,

MY problem got resolved by using below for loop sytanx

for i in 1 2 3
do
// do the task
done

instead of

for ((i=1; i<=$FTP_HOST_COUNT; i++))

Thanks and regards.
Joy

[Tim Holloway]

Actually, iteration over a range of integers is fairly uncommon in shell scripts. But the "((" notation would would in the bash shell. Other shells, such as the Korn Shell (which IBM likes to use) have different conventions. For ksh, it would be

for I in {1..5}
do
...
done

You can generally tell what shell you're using by issuing the "echo $SHELL" command at the command prompt.

[jaya kemmannu]

Hi,

I got "/usr/bin/sh" for the command echo $SHELL. so which command it is ?

Regards,
Jaya

[Tim Holloway]

It's probably an alias. Try this:

ls -l /usr/bin/sh

[Anand Hariharan]

The very first line of your script should read -

#!/bin/bash

[jaya kemmannu]

Hi,


$ ls -l /usr/bin/sh
-r-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 587360 Nov 14 2007 /usr/bin/sh


The very first line in the script used : #!/bin/sh

Regards,
Jaya

[Tim Holloway]

The technical name for this first line is "shebang" and its significance is that when the script is marked executable and invoked directly from the command line, whatever program named in that statement will be used to run the script.

I did a quick check to see what the "/usr/bin/sh" program in hp-ux is and discovered that apparently it is a modified Korn shell with changes made that supposedly make it more Posix-compatible.

So instead of using bash syntax, you need to be using ksh syntax. Either that or run the script under bash (if it's available).

[Anand Hariharan]

jaya kemmannu wrote:
MY problem got resolved by using below for loop sytanx

for i in 1 2 3
do
// do the task
done

instead of

for ((i=1; i<=$FTP_HOST_COUNT; i++))

Try-

i=1; while [ $i -le $FTP_HOST_COUNT ]
do
sendNPMediationFiles $i $deltafilename $SUMMARYFILEPREFIX-$(echo $deltafilename|cut -d- -f2-8)
i=$(expr $i + 1)
done