Shell scripting question [newby]

[Malcolm Fitzgerald]

On 10/04/2006, at 12:39 AM, Jan Grant wrote:

> On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to follow the instructions at
>> <http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-upgrade-5.4-to-6.0/>
>>
>> At point four it offers this shell script.
>>
>> cut -f 1 -d '$' /usr/local/freebsd-update/work/md5all | uniq |
>>         while read X; do
>>                 if [ -f $X ]; then echo $X; fi;
>>         done | sort > /root/base-old
>>
>> Running this from root shell in konsole (bash) I get "while: 
>> Expression
>> Syntax". The various hints and clues I get from the shell, the web 
>> and man
>> bash haven't helped me. Would someone provide the correct syntax for 
>> me?
>
> That syntax is correct for sh and bash; you're not running it, however.
> Double-check that after you su to root, you're really running bash. 
> That
> error is what csh will tell you.

You are right. My user konsole is bash and I presumed that root console 
was too but asking $0 returned su, so I was guessing.

Thanks for the help

malcolm