Run hexdump on the script and post the results.  The hexdump should look
*exactly* like this:
$ hexdump -xc test
0000000    2123    622f    6e69    622f    7361    0a68    6f66    2072
0000000   #   !   /   b   i   n   /   b   a   s   h  \n   f   o   r    
0000010    2069    6e69    6020    6573    2071    2031    3031    3b60
0000010   i       i   n       `   s   e   q       1       1   0   `   ;
0000020    640a    0a6f    2020    2020    2020    2020    6365    6f68
0000020  \n   d   o  \n                                   e   c   h   o
0000030    2420    0a69    6f64    656e    000a                        
0000030       $   i  \n   d   o   n   e  \n                            
0000039


Or e-mail me the script.

George


Clayton Stapleton wrote:
> 
> My system is an Athlon 1600X CPU, 256MB of memory, with SuSE Linux 7.3
> mounted as  a dual boot. The version of bash is 2.05-82.  When I try some
> of the exercises in the Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO-1.html such as the "for",
> "while" and "until" loops thats as far as I have gotten so far I get the
> following from this "for" script when it is run:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> for i in `seq 1 10`;
> do
>         echo $i
> done
> 
> bash: syntax error near unexpected token `for'
> 
> With the "while" and "until" scripts when they are run I get a ">" and it
> just sets there until I do a ctrl-c. The scripts are as follows:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> COUNTER=0
> while [  $COUNTER -lt 10 ]; do
>     echo The counter is $COUNTER
>     let COUNTER=COUNTER+1
> done
> 
> #!/bin/bash
>          COUNTER=20
>          until [  $COUNTER -lt 10 ]; do
>              echo COUNTER $COUNTER
>              let COUNTER-=1
>          done
> 
> I am running these scripts in my home directory.
> Any help will be appriciated.
> 
> Clay Stapleton
> Scottsdale, Arizona
> 
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