Scripting error unexpected token

Question

i'm new here, and i wanted to understand why my programm doesn't work. Can you help me ? thank you

Error

./mytry.sh: line 28: syntax error near unexpected token `fi'
./mytry.sh: line 28: `fi'

!/bin/sh

echo "find?"
read find 

if [ -z find ];
then 
echo "Ok"
fi

if [ ! -z $find ];
then
echo " You are in $(pwd)"
echo " I'm searching "

for element in $(ls)
do
echo $element

if [ -d $ element ];
then 
echo $element "exist and is not empty"
fi 
fi
done

if [ -d $ element ]; => if [ -d $element ]; use www.shellcheck.net to validate it — anubhava
– anubhava, Commented Nov 20, 2014 at 7:02

Yaalie · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-20 07:29:50Z

1

There were two syntax based mistakes. The shebang was written wrongly and the fi in the last line should come after done.

#!/bin/sh

echo "find?"
read find 

if [ -z find ];
then 
echo "Ok"
fi

if [ ! -z $find ];
then
echo " You are in $(pwd)"
echo " I'm searching "

for element in $(ls)
do
echo $element

if [ -d $ element ];
then 
echo $element "exist and is not empty"
fi 
done 
fi

Above is the corrected script.

answered Nov 20, 2014 at 7:29

Yaalie

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Saravanan · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-20 07:06:27Z

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!/bin/sh

echo "find?" read find

if [ -z find ];
then 
 echo "Ok"

fi

if [ ! -z $find ]; then echo " You are in $(pwd)" echo " I'm searching "

for element in $(ls)
do
  echo $element

  if [ -d $ element ];
  then 
     echo $element "exist and is not empty"
  fi 
done

fi #should close after for loop

answered Nov 20, 2014 at 7:06

Saravanan

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