Another bash scripting problem...

Byron Saltysiak byronsalty at gmail.com
Tue Jun 21 01:43:33 UTC 2005


I believe the 'do' needs to be in the first line of the for loop:
for ...
do
 ...
done

one question though - what is this supposed to do? I can probably give
you a cleaner script if I knew what you were doing.

- Byron


On 6/20/05, Matthew S-H <mathbymath at aol.com> wrote:
> 
> Here is the code:
> 
> ---START---
> if test -O ~/.profile_sections;
> then
>     for file in ~/.profile_sections/*;
>        if test ! -d $file;
>         then
>           do source $file;
>        fi
>     done
> fi
> ---END---
> 
> Why doesn't this work?
> 
> 
> Anyone with any help mould be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> ~Matt
> 
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