Bash – Unexpected EOF While Looking for Matching Quote

bashshell

I just wrote a bash script and always getting this EOF-Error.

So here is my script (only works on OS X):

#!/bin/bash

#DEFINITIONS BEGIN
en_sq() {
    echo -e "Enabling smart quotes..."
    defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticQuoteSubstitutionEnabled -bool true
    status=$(defaults read NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticQuoteSubstitutionEnabled -bool)
            if [ "$status" = "1" ]
                then
                    echo -e "Success! Smart quotes are now enabled."
                    SUCCESS="TRUE"
            else
                echo -e "Sorry, an error occured. Try again."
            fi
}
di_sq() {
    echo -e "Disabling smart quotes..."
    defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticQuoteSubstitutionEnabled -bool false
    status=$(defaults read NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticQuoteSubstitutionEnabled -bool)
            if [ "$status" = "0" ]
                then
                    echo -e "Success! Smart quotes are now disabled."
                    SUCCESS="TRUE"
            else
                echo -e "Sorry, an error occured. Try again."
            fi
}
en_sd() {
    echo -e "Enabling smart dashes..."
    defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticDashSubstitutionEnabled -bool true
    status=$(defaults read NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticDashSubstitutionEnabled -bool)
            if [ "$status" = "1" ]
                then
                    echo -e "Success! Smart dashes are now enabled."
                    SUCCESS="TRUE"
            else
                echo -e "Sorry, an error occured. Try again."
            fi
}
di_sd() {
    echo -e "Enabling smart dashes..."
    defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticDashSubstitutionEnabled -bool false
    status=$(defaults read NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticDashSubstitutionEnabled -bool)
            if [ "$status" = "0" ]
                then
                    echo -e "Success! Smart dashes are now disabled."
                    SUCCESS="TRUE"
            else
                echo -e "Sorry, an error occured. Try again."
            fi
}
#DEFINITIONS END
#---------------

#BEGIN OF CODE with properties
#This is only terminated if the user entered properties (eg ./sqd.sh 1 1)
if [ "$1" = "1" ]
    then
        en_sq
    elif [ "$1" = "0" ]
        then
            di_sq
fi

if [ "$2" = "1" ]
    then
        en_sd
        #exit 0 if both, $1 and $2 are correct entered and processed.
        exit 0
    elif [ "$1" = "0" ]
        then
            di_sd
            #exit 0 if both, $1 and $2 are correct entered and processed.
            exit 0
fi
#END OF CODE with properties
#---------------------------


#BEGIN OF CODE without properties
#This is terminated if the user didn't enter two properties
echo -e "\n\n\n\n\nINFO: You can use this command as following: $0 x y, while x and y can be either 0 for false or 1 for true."
echo -e "x is for the smart quotes, y for the smart dashes."
sleep 1
echo -e " \n Reading preferences...\n"
status=$(defaults read NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticQuoteSubstitutionEnabled -bool)
if [ "$status" = "1" ]
    then
        echo -e "Smart quotes are enabled."
    elif [ "$status" = "0" ]
    then
        echo -e "Smart quotes are disabled."

    else
        echo -e "Sorry, an error occured. You have to run this on OS X""
fi

status=$(defaults read NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticQuoteSubstitutionEnabled -bool)
if [ "$status" = "1" ]
    then
        echo -e "Smart dashes are enabled."
    elif [ "$status" = "0" ]
    then
        echo -e "Smart dashes are disabled."

    else
        echo -e "Sorry, an error occured. You have to run this on OS X!"
fi

sleep 3
echo -e "\n\n You can now enable or disable smart quotes."

until [ "$SUCCESS" = "TRUE" ]
do
echo -e "Enter e for enable or d for disable:"
read sq

if [ "$sq" = "e" ]
    then
        en_sq
    elif [ "$sq" = "d" ]
        then
            di_sq
    else
        echo -e "\n\n ERROR! Please enter e for enable or d for disable!"
fi
done
SUCCESS="FALSE"

echo -e "\n\n You can now enable or disable smart dashes."

until [ "$SUCCESS" = "TRUE" ]
do
echo -e "Enter e for enable or d for disable:"
read sq

if [ "$sd" = "e" ]
    then
        en_sd
    elif [ "$sd" = "d" ]
        then
            di_sd
    else
        echo -e "\n\n ERROR! Please enter e for enable or d for disable!"
fi
done

And here is my error:

./coding.sh: line 144: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
./coding.sh: line 147: syntax error: unexpected end of file

Best Answer

You can see your problem if you just look at your question. Note how the syntax highlighting is screwed up after line 95:

echo -e "Sorry, an error occurred. You have to run this on OS X""

As the error message tells you, you have an unmatched ". Just remove the extra " from the line above and you should be fine:

echo -e "Sorry, an error occurred. You have to run this on OS X"
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