From: hadi motamedi <motamedi24 at gmail.com> > On 12/1/10, John Doe <jdmls at yahoo.com> wrote: > > Ok, last try... > > Did you copy/pasted my code? > > Did you type it? > > Saying just that there's a syntax error without showing the code you used > > does > > not help... > Please find below the code that I tried : > cat Edit3 | tr -d "\r" | while read LINE; do > echo "$LINE" | grep -q '>\.\.' > if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then > LOGFILE=`echo $LINE | cut -d' ' -f1`.log > else > echo "$LINE" >> $LOGFILE > fi > done > Please do me favor and correct me on my mistakes. I copy/pasted the code above and it works fine... If I indent it like mine, they are identical. Check that ftp does not add control chars. You run it with bash, right? Ask your sysadmin/colegue to help you. JD