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Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 17:48:17 -0500
From: Aaron Conole <conole AT comcast DOT net>
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To: kynn AT panix DOT com
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Subject: Re: /etc/profile error
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kynn AT panix DOT 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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