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Re: error message for missing fi is not helpful

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On 9/12/2018 6:35 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 9/12/18 5:17 AM, Manuel Reiter wrote:
>
>   
>> Bash Version: 4.4
>> Patch Level: 12
>> Release Status: release
>>
>> ++ Description:
>>
>> When an if statement is not terminated by a fi, bash's error message is
>> not helpful in locating the problem.
>>     
>
> This is tough to do in a bison-generated parser. If someone would like to
> build the structures required to keep track of which conditional command
> the shell is currently parsing, and incorporate that into an error
> message, I'd be happy to look at it.
>
> Chet
>   
This isn't *exactly* what you wanted, but this gives the line number
of the last unmatched statement (but doesn't tell you what the statement
was).  The diff was against bash-4.4.23 (4.4 base w/23 patches)

I can't speak for formatting or base-specific function usage, but I don't
think there was any of those.

Anyway, if you store the word in a separate array where the line #
is stored, you _could_ list the matching word, but I suspect just the
line it started on would be enough for most users.

--- (eoftest.sh)
#!/bin/bash

if ((1)); then
    for i in 1 2 3; do



        echo wow

---
>  ./bash eoftest.sh                          
eoftest.sh: line 10: syntax error: unexpected end of file from line 4.

The wording was just what I threw in.  I don't _need_ attribution for
this if that makes it easier.

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