BASH Syntax error near unexpected token 'done'

Question

Any idea of what the problem could be?

My code is:

#!/bin/bash
while :
do
echo \"Press [CTRL+C] to stop..\"
sleep 1
done

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Answer 1

Sometimes this error happens because of unexpected CR characters in file, usually because the file was generated on a Windows system which uses CR line endings. You can fix this by running os2unix or tr, for example:

tr -d '\015' < yourscript.sh > newscript.sh

This removes any CR characters from the file.