I'm still getting the error. Solaris sh seems to genuinely have a problem with foo=$(bar) syntax:
$ cat ./dollar-paren.sh #!/bin/sh foo=$(date) $ ./dollar-paren.sh dollar-paren.sh: syntax error at line 2: `foo=$' unexpected Backticks seem to work though. E.g., foo=`date` -Ethan On Fri, Oct/31/2008 02:01:55PM, Jeff Squyres wrote: > Sorry; my stupid mailer didn't display it as an attachment when I > forwarded. Try this. > > On Oct 31, 2008, at 1:56 PM, Ethan Mallove wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct/31/2008 01:01:02PM, Jeff Squyres wrote: >> > Re-sending to the MTT list, because I think our listserver will >> > automatically block Brian (I'll add him to the whitelist for future >> > posts!). >> >> I'm getting a syntax error: >> >> $ whatami >> whatami: syntax error at line 149: `DISTRIB_ID=$' unexpected >> >> Not sure if I'm doing a bad copy/paste out of my mail >> client. Jeff, can you send the new whatami script as an >> attachment? >> > > > -- > Jeff Squyres > Cisco Systems > _______________________________________________ > mtt-users mailing list > mtt-us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/mtt-users
