/bin/hello: 21: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Friday 13 February 2009 12:09, Benny k j wrote:
> I apologize for posting my previous request, "directory structure" here, rather than at the buildroot mailing list.
> 
> But now I have this problem:
> 
> /bin/hello: 21: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")
>  
> when i try to run a simple hello world ([hello: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, version 1, statically linked, not stripped]) on my ARM board (AT91RM9200). 
> 
> #include<stdio.h>
> int main(int argc, char** argv)
> {
>         printf("Hello World \n");
>         return 0;
> }

Looks like you didn't set executable bits on hello executable,
and shell tries to parse it as a shell script.

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