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From: "Federico G. Benavento" <benavento@gmail.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] rc complaining about syntax error on {
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:15:21 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <95a7c5b1f7f5b2af46a55d992513406c@yourdomain.dom> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <490725B4-4F2D-42BA-B6D0-D634402E0429@mac.com>

> but apparently rc scans its whole input for errors before executing,  
> so it brings me no closer to a solution. The file is /n/sources/ 
> contrib/pietro/12. What's going on?

your script is unreadable...

anyways, here the error, you havea single quote here:

echo $0: cannot use date's -n option

what's wrong with  while(! ~ $#* 0) and switch() ?

Federico G. Benavento

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      reply	other threads:[~2007-11-28 23:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-28 22:28 Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-28 23:15 ` Federico G. Benavento [this message]

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