I'm fairly new to shell scripting and am having the hardest time figuring out why this simple script is giving me an error

#! /bin/sh

printf "Confirm (y/n): "
read confirm
if [ "$confirm" = "y" ]
echo "confirmed"
else
echo "not confirmed"
fi

the error is "syntax error near unexpected token `else'

I'm using TextEdit on OSX (sorry I'm limited to this). The only thing I can think of is that it's reading some return character and getting thrown off. I've tried saving the script using different encoding types but the same error pops up.

Note: I also get an error at line 2 because it does not regonize \r as a command

Any idea on what's causing this?

You're missing a "; then" and also you have a type in the shebang (first line).

For the \r error, sounds like you have Windows end-of-line characters. Convert them to Unix (dos2unix, or in vi :set ff=dos)

WHOOPS! sorry i DO have the 'then' in my script i just forgot to type it out when i posted, so it's not the 'then' that's causing it.

We can't really help you unless we have full, accurate and complete information to work with - we could try to divine the answer, but that might take a while!

Please cut and paste your complete script, and also the complete error message you get when you try and execute it (which should include useful things like line numbers).

I figured it out. It's the ^M characters at the end of each line...

I opened vi and ran %s/^M//g and that did the trick.

Well as John has said, not giving the whole information, such as I wrote this script in windows, does kinda make it difficult to assist.
Maybe next time