* [9fans] rc complaining about syntax error on {
@ 2007-11-28 22:28 Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-28 23:15 ` Federico G. Benavento
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Pietro Gagliardi @ 2007-11-28 22:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Hello. I was writing a program called 12 which displays twelve-hour
time. It accepts the following options:
-g show time as part of date output
-u sent to date
date's -n option is rejected. The default behavior is to show only
the 12-hour time. Now when I run this feature-complete version, it
gives me an error saying that '}' on line 24(?) is a syntax error.
Huh? I added
flag x +
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?
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* Re: [9fans] rc complaining about syntax error on {
2007-11-28 22:28 [9fans] rc complaining about syntax error on { Pietro Gagliardi
@ 2007-11-28 23:15 ` Federico G. Benavento
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Federico G. Benavento @ 2007-11-28 23:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
> 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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