Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 17:57:20 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net> To: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: finding unmatched quotes in shell scripts Message-ID: <nospam-1037519839.91122@bambi.gbch.net> In-Reply-To: <200211170159.gAH1xCG1052133@orthanc.ab.ca> of Sat, 16 Nov 2002 18:59:12 MST References: <200211170159.gAH1xCG1052133@orthanc.ab.ca>
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Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: | I've tried a number of syntax-colouring editors, to no avail. The quotes | (single, double, and back) *are* balanced, according to everything I've | thrown the script at. That's why I'm more interested in something that | can actually parse Bourne shell syntax (quiet Terry - I *know* what | you're going to say) and dump out what it thinks the parse tree looks | like. The problem isn't with the quotes being unbalanced, it's something | else that's making the shell ignore one (or more) of those quotes. Surely the simple thing is to put an exit statement in the middle of the script and see which half has the problem? Move the exit statement forwards or backwards in a binary search until the problem leaps out and hits you in the face. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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