solaris: newbee starts scripting

dolphs · 04-01-2004, 03:02 AM

Hi, currently I am playing with the solaris system running bash as shell.

putting the following lines in VI gives me the following error:

SCRIPT
for (( i=1; i<=5; i++ ))
do
for (( j=1; j<=i; j++ ))
do
echo -n " *"
done
echo ""
done

ERROR
./stars: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `(('
./stars: line 1: `For (( i=1; i<=5; i++ ))'

Started with ./[file], sh [file] but cannot get it running. What to do to get it running?

Cheers

jlliagre · 04-01-2004, 03:57 PM

put this line at the beginning of your script:

#!/opt/sfw/bin/bash

fix the path if bash isn't installed in /opt/sfw/bin