Question

I’m following some tutorials here and whenever I execute this, I get

Do you want to create a bukkit server on this computer? (Hint: answer YES or NO) > no
answered no
./test.sh: line 44: syntax error near unexpected token `else'
./test.sh: line 44: 'else'

here’s the script:

while true; do
    read -p "Do you want to create a bukkit server on this computer? (Hint: answer YES or NO) > " yn
    case $yn in
        [Yy]* ) echo answered yes; INSTALL="Y"; break;;
        [Nn]* ) echo answered no; break;;
        * ) echo "Please answer yes or no.";;
    esac
done

if [ -z "$INSTALL" ];
    echo "Yay!"
else
    echo "Sadface!"
fi

i’m a bash newbie :/

Answer 1

You’re missing a then keyword after the condition:

if [ -z "$INSTALL" ]; then
    echo "Yay!"
else
    echo "Sadface!"
fi