Bourne shell syntax problem?

[Jeff Beadles]

In croten at ltpsun.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles D. Roten) writes:

>    I am having trouble getting a Bourne shell to run, and have come to
>suspect that the problem is in the section where I parse the variables.
>The script is rather long (~260 lines) so I will only include the suspect
>portion.
>
...
>      *)    if test "$data" = ""; then
>               data=$i
>            elif test "$normal = ""; then
                              ^^^

The problem is that you are missing a quote.  This is probably one of the
harder-to-find bugs with a shell script.



Have fun!
	-Jeff


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