Re: unexpected end of file

[Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>]

On 16/1/2000 ulla.russell@pp.inet.fi wrote:

> I do not have mc installed. I used the -x switch on the f
> ile ("od -x .profile", this also allows files to be viewed
> in hex).
>
> I didn't see anything suspicious. Does anyone have any
> other ideas?
>
> If I was to install midnight commander what instruction
> would I have to give to view files in hex?
>
> The problem is worse than I at first realised, since this
> files contains $PATH for root and it's not being loaded. I
> suppose there are ways around this problem, but it would
> be nice to find out why the problem arose in the first
> place or at least how to fix it.

Its probably not as complicated as you are making it, more likely 
there is just a stray " or something

if there are any if then structures make sure they are terminated 
with a fi, all { have a matching } and so on.

all it takes is one stray " ' or ` to cause that, bash keeps looking 
for the closing quote, or the fi or whatever and if it gets to the 
end of file it complains.

Ethan