^E2(^A500: not found

[BIS]

Any ideas what this might mean?

It comes from a part like this:

a=`wc -m /txt.txt | awk '{print$1}'`
if [ "$a" > "500" ]
then
(something)

What does ^E2(^A500 mena?

 

[mrn]

Where do you get this error, what is your OS, what shell are you using.

can you post the full script --
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[BIS]

Posting the full script would be a bit too much....

It seems I have messed up vi somehow...or perhaps typed some invisible characters - I don't know.

This is SunOS5.6

If I comment out almost everything, with #'s, I now get

^E3^\\357\377\377\261: not found

which makes me even more confused...

 

[BIS]

NEVER MIND !!! .........

Sorry,

It was the shell complaining that it couldn't find some characters.

I had forgotten to hash out a comment after a function so I had something like this;

Function() Description

changing it to

Function() # Description

solved it. Many thanks for your time and sorry for a silly mistake.

By the way, is it possible to call a function from within another function?

 

[mrn]

yes

function a
{
function b
{
ls -al
}
ls
b
}


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