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Re: /etc/profile error


kynn@panix.com wrote:

Hi.  I just installed Cygwin on an IBM laptop running Windows XP.
Whenever I bring up a Cygwin shell, I get the following error:

bash: /etc/profile: line 196: syntax error: unexpected end of file

I don't see any problem with /etc/profile:

  190	  echo "mkpasswd -l -d > /etc/passwd"
  191	  echo "mkgroup  -l -d > /etc/group"
  192	  echo
  193	  echo "This message is only displayed once (unless you recreate /etc/group)"
  194	  echo "and can be safely ignored."
  195	
  196	  # only display the above once
  197	  cp -f /etc/group ${HOME}/group.mkgroup_l_d \
  198	  && ( [ -w /etc/group ] || chmod --silent a+w /etc/group ; )\
  199	  && sed -e 's/^mkgroup_l_d/mkgroup-l-d/' ${HOME}/group.mkgroup_l_d > /etc/group \

In fact, this /etc/profile file is identical to the /etc/profile files
in other Cygwin installations I have done recently, and do not
generate the error quoted above.

Can someone tell me how to fix this problem?

Thanks!

kj



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Maybe it's just me, but this line:

199 && sed -e 's/^mkgroup_l_d/mkgroup-l-d/' ${HOME}/group.mkgroup_l_d > /etc/group \

looks strikingly suspicious. Are there lines following 199 or does that end? If you notice, at the end of the line is the \ character which tells the interpreter to expect another line. if you're missing it, it could be the cause of an unexpected EOF error.

Aaron



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