Markus I did exactly what you described.
As per Markus N's suggestion I changed the /bin/sh to /bin/bash and things working well (so far!) Many many thanks guys for your help Cheers Sab > On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 5:53 PM, <razmjoo...@faunalia.co.uk> wrote: >> Mine is this: >> echo $SHELL >> /bin/bash >> > Good I guess. How did you install v.rast.stats2? Is the script you > installed really 100% identical to > https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass-addons/vector/v.rast.stats2/v.rast.stats2 > > Since this is a script, you can fetch it to a folder of your likening with > svn checkout svn checkout > https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass-addons/vector/v.rast.stats2 > and copy the script v.rast.stats2 to its appropriate place. > > Markus M > >> >>> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Markus Neteler <nete...@osgeo.org> >>> wrote: >>>> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 5:37 PM, <razmjoo...@faunalia.co.uk> wrote: >>>>> No...same error >>>>> /usr/local/grass-6.5.svn/scripts/v.rast.stats2: 350: Syntax error: >>>>> "(" >>>>> unexpected >>>> >>>> The line looks like this: >>>> >>>> # create array with new column names >>>> col=( `cat "$COLNAMETMP" | tr '\n' ' '` ) >>>> >>>> This looks like a bash-ism. In case that /bin/sh isn't bash >>>> on Sab's machine but another shell it is likely to fail. >>>> >>> Hmm. Since you (Markus N) are listed as main author and I merely try >>> to promote v.rast.stats2, and my knowledge of scripting is limited to >>> bash, do you have a suggestion about how to make this portable to >>> non-bash? >>> >>> Markus M >>> >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user