[KLUG Members] help with bash script error

[Dan DeSloover]

A wild guess:

I could be wrong and often am, but might it be the semicolon?

--- Richard Harding <rick at ricksweb.info> wrote:

> I'm trying to setup this code that will merge mailgraph with cacti for
> postfix for me and I've gotten so close (his setup was FreeBSD and I'm
> on debian), but I have one error I can't figure out.
> 
> I'm not a bash master, but it seems like this should work from the
> documentation on loops I can see online. 
> 
> The script is:
>  
> #!/bin/bash
> for i in sent received rejected bounced spam virus;
> do
>     c=$(/bin/cat /var/tmp/mail$i)
>     result="${result} ${i}:${c}"
>     echo 0 > /var/tmp/mail$i
> done
> echo $result
> 
> I'm getting the error:
> 'ostfixstats.sh: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token `
> 'ostfixstats.sh: line 2: `for i in sent received rejected bounced spam
> virus;
> 
> Am I missing something on how the for loop should look?
> 
> Thanks for any help. 
> 
> Rick
> 
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Thanks,
Dan DeSloover
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