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the Stack Overflow Community Stack Overflow is a community of 4.7 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes syntax error unexpected expecting keyword_end a minute: Sign up I am getting error “array.sh: 3: array.sh: Syntax error: ”(“ unexpected” up vote 3 down vote favorite 2 I have written the following code: #!/bin/bash #Simple array array=(1 2 3 4 5) echo ${array[*]} And I am syntax error unexpected expecting end syntaxerror getting error: array.sh: 3: array.sh: Syntax error: "(" unexpected From what I came to know from Google, that this might be due to the fact that Ubuntu is now not taking "#!/bin/bash" by default... but then again I added the line but the error is still coming. Also I have tried by executing bash array.sh but no luck! It prints blank. My Ubuntu version is: Ubuntu 14.04 arrays bash shell ubuntu share|improve this question edited Aug 9 '14 at 19:46 asked Aug

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9 '14 at 19:29 Mistu4u 1,46662352 sh array.sh will generate that error because ordinary bourne shells, such as dash, do not understand arrays. bash array.sh should work fine. I tested your script and, under bash, it works for me. –John1024 Aug 9 '14 at 19:43 @John1024, bash array.sh prints blank in my case. –Mistu4u Aug 9 '14 at 19:45 What does echo $BASH_VERSION say? You may have an old version of bash. –Ned Deily Aug 9 '14 at 19:46 @NedDeily, 4.3.8(1)-release –Mistu4u Aug 9 '14 at 19:47 1 Add set -x after the shebang line. –Ned Deily Aug 9 '14 at 19:57 | show 5 more comments 3 Answers 3 active oldest votes up vote 9 down vote accepted Given that script: #!/bin/bash #Simple array array=(1 2 3 4 5) echo ${array[*]} and assuming: It's in a file in your current directory named array.sh; You've done chmod +x array.sh; You have a sufficiently new version of bash installed in /bin/bash (you report that you have 4.3.8, which is certainly new enough); and You execute it correctly then that should work without any problem. If you execute the script by typing ./array.sh the system will pay attention to the #!/bin/bash line and execute the script using /bin/bash. If you execute it by typing something like: sh ./array.sh then it will execute it using /bin/sh. On Ubuntu, /bin/sh is typically a symbolic link to /bin/dash,

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them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top `Syntax error: “(” unexpected` when creating an array up http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25222259/i-am-getting-error-array-sh-3-array-sh-syntax-error-unexpected vote 1 down vote favorite 1 I have two (Debian) Linux servers. I am creating a shell script. On the first one I create an array thus: #!/bin/bash target_array=( "/home/user/direct/filename -p123 -r" ) That works fine. But when I run this on the other server I get: Syntax error: "(" unexpected As far as I can tell both servers are the same. Can anyone shed some light on why this doesn't work? If I type it into the terminal directly it http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/253892/syntax-error-unexpected-when-creating-an-array is fine?? It would appear that when I run it as sh scriptname.sh I get the error, but if I run it as ./scriptname.sh it seems to be ok. What's the difference? bash shell-script array share|improve this question edited Jan 7 at 23:36 Gilles 369k666681119 asked Jan 7 at 14:42 IGGt 398213 Did you copy-pasted the script between the two server? try cat -v script to see if there are spurious char. –LilloX Jan 7 at 14:50 2 sh is not bash and so running it as sh scriptname.sh is wrong –Eric Renouf Jan 7 at 15:01 add a comment| 3 Answers 3 active oldest votes up vote 6 down vote accepted When you use ./scriptname.sh it executes with /bin/bash as in the first line with #!. But when you use sh scriptname.sh it executes sh, not bash. The sh shell has no syntax to create arrays, but Bash has the syntax you used. share|improve this answer edited Jan 7 at 23:37 Gilles 369k666681119 answered Jan 7 at 15:06 Konstantin Morenko 1986 OK, that makes sense now. As you can probably tell I'm quite new to Linux (currently trying to convert my Powershell scripts shell/bash scripts). I will stick to using ./ from now on. cheers –IGGt Jan 7 at 15:24 That's not necessarily, but there must be coordination between #!/bin/sh and sh script.sh (or #!/bin/bash and bash script.sh) –Konstantin Morenko Ja

01:57 PMI have seen other threads on this problem, but I didn't find any that posted solutions... When I create a https://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-444304.html script and try to use an array like this: #!/bin/bash names=( Jennifer Tonya Anna Sadie ) for name in ${names[@]} do echo $name done I get this error: Syntax https://github.com/mchav/with/issues/15 error: "(" unexpected Pretty much everywhere I look regarding arrays, tells me to create them like I did in the code above. Some of the other posts asked people syntax error to run commands and study the output (again, with no resolution posted), so I will post those here in hopes that someone can help me get to the root of the problem. jon@papa-penguin:~/Desktop$ ls -l /bin/*sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 676836 2006-09-19 15:24 /bin/bash -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 79912 2006-07-11 12:31 /bin/dash lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2007-05-13 09:13 syntax error unexpected /bin/rbash -> bash lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2007-05-13 09:13 /bin/sh -> dash And this is the contents of my /etc/shells file: # /etc/shells: valid login shells /bin/sh /bin/bash Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. QuikeeMay 15th, 2007, 02:27 PMI did my own example and "a=( a b c )" works for me.. however "a= ( a b c )" gives me an error you get. Try to execute with "bash