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Meena
Meena

Reputation: 21

Syntax error near unexpected token 'elif'

#!/bin/bash
if [ "$1" = "boot" ]
then
     if [ -f /var/log/boot.log ]
     then
         echo /var/log/boot.log
     elif [ -f /var/log/boot ]
     then
         echo /var/log/boot
     fi
fi

This shows the output:

: command not foundline 8: GetLogfileName.sh: line 15: syntax error
near unexpected token `elif' 'etLogfileName.sh: line 15: `        
elif [ -f /var/log/boot ]

What is going wrong here?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4884

Answers (2)

konyak
konyak

Reputation: 11716

If you are using vi editor, set ":set ff=unix", save the file, and re-execute it.

This file format (ff) set command tells vi to use LF-only line endings when the file is saved.

Upvotes: 2

glenn jackman
glenn jackman

Reputation: 246847

The garbled error message indicates your file has carriage returns before the newline. Did you edit your script on Windows? Either use your text editor to save the file without carriage returns or run the script through dos2unix (or perhaps d2u)

Upvotes: 6

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