hello i have e shell script problem

[jimmy_39]

What is a " [ or ] "

Help me

[Doug O'Leary]

Hey;

Some context might be helpful...

I've seen things like that in html docs.. not normally in shells - at least not with functional terminals.

Doug

[Elias Abboud]

hi

where do you see these? Is your TERM variable set correctly? where did you get your shell script from??

Cheers
Elias

[jimmy_39]

echo "^[&f0k${#hn}D$hn^M\c"
elif [ "$TERM" = "xterm" -o "$TERM" = "vt100" ]
then
echo "\033]2;$hn\007\c"
elif [ "$TERM" = "dtterm" -o "$TERM" = "vt220" ]

[Patrick Wallek]

I think what you are seeing is cut-and-paste issues with the forums.

The forums seem to not like it if you paste something from MS Word. Characters get translated to their ASCII values for some reason.

If you did get the script from the Forums, it would be helpful to know which thread. Then maybe we can help you get it corrected.

[Stephen Keane]

[ = [

] = ]

[jimmy_39]

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/ciss/doLogin.do?TargetPage=http%3A%2F%2Fforums1.itrc.hp.com%2Fservice%2Fforums%2Fquestionanswer.do%3FthreadId%3D51050

[Gopi Sekar]

alright, the problem is actually with that post itself.

it should have been something like this:

if [ $TERM = hp -o $TERM = dterm ];
then
fi

so replace &=93 with [ and &=91 with ]

it could be because of problem with cut and paste

Regards,
Gopi

[Gopi Sekar]

i'm sorry, actually &=91; is [ and &=93; is ]

typo error.

[jimmy_39]

delays[x]="Delay?"
done
unset delays[*]
}

while (( x < $strg_len )) && (( $strg_len < 1024 ))
do
(( x = x + 1 ))
scroll[x]=`echo "$*" |cut -c $x`
[ ${scroll[x]} ] 2> /dev/null && {
print "${scroll[x]}\c"
delay 2000
} || {
print "${scroll[x]}\c"
delay 5000

[jimmy_39]

delays[x]="Delay?"



delays[;x];="Delay?"

[Fred Ruffet · Accepted solution]

; seem to be part of the code.
[ is [

So script you give should look like :

delays[x]="Delay?"
done
unset delays[*]
}

while (( x < $strg_len )) && (( $strg_len < 1024 ))
do
(( x = x + 1 ))
scroll[x]=`echo "$*" |cut -c $x`
[ ${scroll[x]} ] 2> /dev/null && {
print "${scroll[x]}\c"
delay 2000
} || {
print "${scroll[x]}\c"
delay 5000


Doesn't it look nice ?

Regards,

Fred

[jimmy_39]

thanks