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Re: Help - Getting lots of errors from functions and scripts



Bob Cox wrote the following on 12/22/2008 08:35 AM:
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 08:09:31 -0600, Dennis Wicks (wix@mgssub.com) wrote:
Greetings;

When I run anything that is actually a shell script starting with #!/bin/sh and maybe any thing that uses a shell function I get five or six screens full of messages that look like the following and all start with /bin/sh

	/bin/sh: _openssl: line 25: syntax error near
		`unexpected token `('
	/bin/sh: _openssl: line 25: ` -@(in|out|oid))'
	/bin/sh: error importing function definition for
		`_openssl'
	/bin/sh: _service: line 4: syntax error in
		conditional expression: unexpected token `('
	/bin/sh: _service: line 4: syntax error near `@(*'
/bin/sh: _service: line 4: ` [[ ${COMP_WORDS[0]} != @(*init.d/!(functions|~)|service) ]] && return 0;'

One example is  /usr/bin/bashbug

but all scripts that start with  #!/bin/sh
seem to have the problem.

One function that has the problem is one I wrote that does an ls and pipes it to less. As follows;

	function lm ()
		{
    		ls -laNF "$@" | $(which less)
    		}


Anybody have any idea about what is causing these errors
or where to look?

What is the output from

ls -la /bin/sh please Dennis?

I think it should be something like:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2008-06-17 21:20 /bin/sh -> bash

and if not, then that could be a starting place.


Well, great minds often run along the same track, but I guess we still have farther to go. The results of ls -la /bin/sh are exactly as they should be:

	> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2008-08-29 11:21 /bin/sh -> bash

Anyway, we know that is configed correctly.

Any other ideas? Oh yeah, I'm running Lenny.

TNX,
Dennis


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