Hi All,
I am trying to run the following script and getting some syntacs errors. Please help me because i am stack.

The script:
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#!/bin/bash

PLAYSMS=$1

if [ -z "$PLAYSMS" ]; then
echo "Usage: $0 <playSMS installation path>"
exit 1
fi

CWD=$(pwd)

##Common strings
cd $PLAYSMS/plugin
touch language/messages.pot
touch language/index.html
xgettext -L PHP --omit-header --no-location --sort-output --from-code=utf-8 -j -o language/messages.pot ../init.php
xgettext -L PHP --omit-header --no-location --sort-output --from-code=utf-8 -j -o language/messages.pot ../index.php ##Themes,plugins and tools strings
find ../lib/ -iname "*.php" -exec xgettext -L PHP --omit-header --no-location --sort-output --from-code=utf-8 -j -o language/messages.pot {} \;cd $PLAYSMS/web/plugin
find ../inc/ -iname "*.php" -exec xgettext -L PHP --omit-header --no-location --sort-output --from-code=utf-8 -j -o language/messages.pot {} \;find . -type d -name "language" | grep -v "grep" | sed -e "s/\/[^\/]*$//" > /tmp/.lang_folders
find themes/common/ -iname "*.php" -exec xgettext -L PHP --omit-header --no-location --sort-output --from-code=utf-8 -j -o language/messages.pot {} \;for i in `cat /tmp/.lang_folders` ; do mkdir -p "$i/language" ; done
for i in `cat /tmp/.lang_folders` ; do rm -f "$i/language/messages.pot" ; done
for i in `cat /tmp/.lang_folders` ; do touch "$i/language/messages.pot" ; done
for i in `cat /tmp/.lang_folders` ; do
find $i -iname '*.php' -exec xgettext -L PHP --omit-header --no-location --sort-output --from-code=utf-8 -j -o "$i/language/messages.pot" {} \; ;
touch "$i/language/index.html"
done
rm /tmp/.lang_folders
cd $CWD

exit 0

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The Error:
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find: missing argument to `-exec'
find: missing argument to `-exec'
1-update-pot-files.sh: line 20: syntax error near unexpected token `do'
1-update-pot-files.sh: line 20: `find themes/common/ -iname "*.php" -exec xgettext -L PHP --omit-header --no-location --sort-output --from-code=utf-8 -j -o language/messages.pot {} \;for i in `cat /tmp/.lang_folders` ; do mkdir -p "$i/language" ; done'
--------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks,
Nimrod

Firs please use code tags. Makes things easier to read.

Try to escape the {} like you did with ;.
Did you run the line outside of the script and see what it does?

As well, I recommend that you put each statement on it's own line. Some of these lines are lengthy, and you're confusing things by using semicolons to delimit statements. That code, even in code tags is needlessly difficult to read. I can see at least two such cases where it causes an error because you escape the semicolon as required by find -exec, but then fail to add a semicolon to separate it from the next statement. I can say that's the most likely reason you're getting

change this line, adding the semicolon denoted in red:

Whitespace and comments are your friends.

Get rid of the backticks. You did it right with CWD=$(pwd). Do the same everywhere. On that note, use pushd and popd, let bash do the work of storing the previous directory for you.

Many thanks!!! it is working!

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