Syntax error near unexpected token `elif'

Question

./chkf: line 30: syntax error near unexpected token `elif\'
\'/chkf: line 30: `elif [ -f \"$object\" ] ; then


if [ -d \"$object\" ] ; then
    message=\"$message a         


        

Answer 1

It's your line endings. Transferring it from Windows has left the CR/LF line endings on.

When I create a script then manually add the CR characters, I get exactly the same error:

qq.sh: line 3: syntax error near unexpected token `elif'
'q.sh: line 3: `elif [ 1 == 1 ] ; then

You can fix it by removing the CR character from CR/LF line endings.

cat script.sh | sed '/\015/d' >newscript.sh

• CR character correspond to \015 octal representation as listed in ASCII