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I have a small shell script which is throwing error:

unexpected end of file

The script follows:

#!
if [ t -eq 1 ]
then
 echo " TEST1 "
else
echo " TEST LAST LOOP "
fi

There is nothing in the script that should give that error. If you run the script with sh ./script.sh, it will produce

 TEST LAST LOOP 

as output. If running it with bash ./script.sh you will get the same output, but with an additional "integer expression expected" error since t is not an integer (this may also happen if you run with sh if your sh is implemented by bash). If you run it with ./script.sh, the shell will most likely complain with "No such file or directory" since you have not added a proper #!-line.

In this script, you may use #!/bin/sh as the #!-line as you only use standard POSIX features.

The test [ t -eq 1 ] will never be true as t (the character) is not an integer. If you're setting the variable t to an integer somewhere, use [ "$t" -eq 1 ] in the test.

The only way I can get a shell to say "unexpected end of file" is by converting the script to a DOS text file and running it with bash.

If you get this error, then the script file is probably a DOS text file (possibly due to being created on a Windows machine). You should run dos2unix on the script.

See questions related to dos2unix.

Missing the shebang line #!/bin/sh and t isn't defined

• replace #! by #!/bin/sh or run sh ./script.sh, and you must set t as integer $t not t.