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Hello everyone,

I am having problems figuring this out.
This script below is supposed to create a list of file names with their "md5sum", in a file "lib-list.txt"

When I run it (sh component-list.sh) I get this:

component-list.sh: 4: component-list.sh: function: not found
component-list.sh: 5: local: not in a function

Interestingly, I have run it in debug mode (bash -x component-list.sh) and it populated the said text file with a list of lib files

Am running it on Debian 7.

Here is the script:

Code:

#!/bin/bash 

cd /usr/local/zookeeper



function list_dir 

{



local path=$1

local level=$2

file=$3



#echo $path

#echo $level



if [ $level -gt 2 ];then return;fi

for i in `ls $path`

do

        local line=""

        for n in `seq 0 $level`

        do

            line+="\x20\x20"

        done



if [ `echo $i | grep -E "\.zip$|\.jar$"` ]

then

      md=`md5sum $path/$i | awk '{print $1}'`

      echo -e $line${i##*/}"\x20\x20\x20\x20"$md >> "./$file"

fi

done



for i in `ls $path`

do

        local line=""

        for n in `seq 0 $level`

        do

            line+="\x20\x20"

        done



if [ -d $path/$i ]

then

    echo -e $line${i##*/} >> $file

    list_dir $path/$i $[level+1] $file

fi

done

}



rm lib-list.txt



echo -e "lib" >> lib-list.txt

list_dir ./lib 0 lib-list.txt

Your help in figuring out the problem would be highly appreciated.

Thank you.