shell scripting question -- nested mail and ftp statements

[Ted Mims]

I have run into an interesting problem and was hoping that you might could shed some light.? Below is an example of code followed by the error generated.

put $OUTST
RC=$?

if [ "$RC" -ne 0 ]
then
??????? echo "sample text"
??????? mail tmims@mutualdrug.com <

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

Hi Tim,

This one is easy. You have whitespace in front of your '!'. Move the '!' all the way to the left and all will be well.

Regards, Clay

[Javier Ortiz Guajardo]

once i have a problem with de >>? and this is what i did.

I put the lines vit >>' and ? at the beginning of the line and the shell works fine.
put $OUTST
RC=$?

if [ "$RC" -ne 0 ]
then
echo "sample text"
mail tmims@mutualdrug.com <

[Javier Ortiz Guajardo]

you can replace the lines
mail tmims@mutualdrug.com <