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you sure it doesnt need to be &quot;while read $file&quot;?<br />
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you sure it doesnt need to be "while read $file"?



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I tried that and it gives the same error...any ideas?
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I tried that and it gives the same error...any ideas?

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which shell are you running it under?
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Did you try to run it in csh/tcsh instead of sh/bash/ksh
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Did you try to run it in csh/tcsh instead of sh/bash/ksh

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Awesome, that did the trick...thanks!
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I am using the following at a Linux command line to search a series of subdirectories and unzip files. &nbsp;<br />
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find incp lotl resi rntl comi -name &quot;*.zip&quot; | while read file ; do unzip -d `dirname $file` $file ; done<br />
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This was working fine except that all of a sudden I am getting this error:<br />
while: Expression Syntax.<br />
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can anyone suggest what may be going on?<br />
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I am using the following at a Linux command line to search a series of subdirectories and unzip files.  

find incp lotl resi rntl comi -name "*.zip" | while read file ; do unzip -d `dirname $file` $file ; done

This was working fine except that all of a sudden I am getting this error:
while: Expression Syntax.

can anyone suggest what may be going on?



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