I'm trying to get this while loop (using nano) to download some websites from this URL but I keep getting the error "syntax error near unexpected token `done'":
while read <FIRST-LAST> do
echo FIRST-LAST
curl -O https://www.uoguelph.ca/arts/history/people/FIRST-LAST
done < formatted_history.txt
Best Answer
do
should appear on a new line, or it needs to have a semi-colon inserted in front of it<FIRST-LAST>
should actually be the name of a shell variable, andFIRST-LAST
should be a reference to that variable.<
and>
are not legal characters for shell variables, so we can deduce that something else must be substituted here instead.person
seems to be as good a variable name as any in this particular case.I think something like this should work much better:
This assumes that the file
formatted_history.txt
actually exists in the current directory and is a list of people from the https://www.uoguelph.ca/arts/history/people/ page - something like: