PROBLEM:

Bash syntax error: unexpected end of file

Here’s the code:

#!/bin/bash
# june 2011

if [ $# -lt 3 -o $# -gt 3 ]; then
   echo "Error... Usage: $0 host database username"
   exit 0
Fi

• after running sh file.sh:
• syntax error: unexpected end of file

SOLUTION 1:

• file.sh is with CRLF line terminators.

dos2unix file.sh

then the problem will be fixed.

• You can install dos2unix in ubuntu with this:

sudo apt-get install dos2unix

die () { test -n "$@" && echo "$@"; exit 1 }

SOLUTION 2:

• Terminate bodies of single-line functions with semicolon

I.e. this innocent-looking snippet will cause the same error:

 die () { test -n "$@" && echo "$@"; exit 1 }

• To make the dumb parser:

die () { test -n "$@" && echo "$@"; exit 1; }

SOLUTION 3:

• We needed on cygwin :-

 export SHELLOPTS
 set -o igncr

in .bash_profile . This way we didn’t need to run unix2dos

SOLUTION 4:

• Make sure the name of the directory in which the .sh file is present does not have a space character.
• e.g: Say if it is in a folder called ‘New Folder’, you’re bound to come across the error that you’ve cited. Instead just name it as ‘New_Folder’.