bash scripts are not behaving. The following script, which works on my SuSE 6.3 at home, fails on SuSE 6.4 at work with the following messages: ...Line 4: syntax error near unexpected token clearscr(){ ...Line 4: 'clearscr(){ If I remove the function and put its contents in place of clearscr then I get the same error msg but it barfs on the 'in' of 'case $mychoice in'. Bash will also barf if it encounters a blank line, or any trailing white spaces. Sensitivities which SuSE at home never displays. I carefully removed all trailing white spaces from each line, made each space between words just 1 char wide, and removed all blank lines. I made sure all indentation was by tabs. It worked for a while, but the next time I edited the script, to remove a '-k' from the sz line, it barfed and has refused to work since. Here is the script: #!/bin/bash fext=".001" clearscr(){ clear; echo "Hello, $LOGNAME, Select your choice:"; echo "1) Change Password"; echo "2) Download file using a 3 digit Julian day. Today:$(date +%j)"; echo "3) Quit"; } clearscr while true do echo -n "Choice? " read mychoice case "$mychoice" in 1) echo "Passwords must be 8 or less characters and/or numbers" sleep 3 passwd $LOGNAME echo "$LOGNAME did a Password change" >> /tmp/bbs_users_log echo "Password command completed..." sleep 2 ;; 2) ls *.001 echo -n "Enter the 3 digit Julian Day, 001 to 365:" read julian fname="$LOGNAME$julian$fext" if [ -f $fname ] && [ -n $fname ] then sz -Z -N $fname echo "$LOGNAME Downloaded file:$fname">> /tmp/bbs_users_log echo "Download complete" sleep 1 else echo "Couldn't find: $fname , or file was empty." sleep 2 fi ;; 3) exit ;; *) echo "$mychoice is NOT a choice" sleep 2 esac clearscr done -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq