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Alex
Alex

Reputation: 2531

Cygwin bash: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'

I have got a .rules file with the following command:

echo "char _$(var1)_b_[] = \"@(#) $(var1) $(var2) $(var3)\";" > $@

Processing this file by cygwin bash I've got the following error:

echo "char _a_b_[] = \"@(#) abc 1.2.3 [03/05/2014 064 01:10]\";" > file.c

_a_b_[]: -c: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'

_a_b_[]: -c: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file

On Linux it works fine. I tried to replace double quotes with a single ones:

echo 'char _$(var1)_b_[] = "@(#) $(var1) $(var2) $(var3)";' > $@

But it doesn't help for me. What's wrong with this command?

UPD

I found out the error is raised due to space character. The command

echo 'char _$(var1)_b_[] = "@(#) $(var1)";' > $@

failes, but this one

echo 'char _$(var1)_b_[] = "@(#)$(var1)";' > $@

is OK. Looks like bash thinks $(var1) is a new command and can't find needed quote:

echo " " > file.c
\ > file.c: -c: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
\ > file.c: -c: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2644

Answers (1)

hlovdal
hlovdal

Reputation: 28190

You could try to offload the echo command to a separate shell script, e.g.

target:
        sh generate_code.sh $(var1) $(var2) $(var3) > $@

and generate_code.sh containing

#!/bin/sh
echo "char _${1}_b_[] = \"@(#) $1 $2 $3\";"

Upvotes: 1

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