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hi, i recently changed my shell to bash and now everytime i log in i get this error message.

bash: /net/hu5/davidlee/.profile-sun-5: line 48: syntax error near unexpected to
ken `fi'
bash: /net/hu5/davidlee/.profile-sun-5: line 48: ` if [[ "${TERM}" != unkno
wn ]] then break; fi'

any ideas, i�m no expert unix user. is all this written in perl, or some special language i never heard of?

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Hi eeldivady,

I think line 48 should look something like:

if [[ "${TERM}" != unknown ]]; then break;

fi

If you can alter the profile file to the above the problem shouldn't appear next time you login.

The code's actually part of the bash shell language.

Andy Hibbins :slight_smile:

removed excessive blank lines --oombera