help with "-sh: syntax error near unexpected token 'newline'"

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CrazyFreak Author

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help with "-sh: syntax error near unexpected token 'newline'"

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2141347?threadID=2141347

^ I followed these steps since migration assistant hanged on me, but when i entered the command:

<pre style="overflow:auto; font-family: 'Monaco'; font-size: 10px">chown -R username:staff /Users/username</pre>

i got:

-sh: syntax error near unexpected token 'newline'

i made sure my username was the EXACTLY in the correct field where it said to place your username, did everything correctly, until this occured. what should I do?

Posted on May 21, 2011 8:12 PM

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red_menace

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May 22, 2011 7:15 AM in response to CrazyFreak

The command you entered contains HTML (the <pre>...</pre> bit) - quite a few posts from before the forum change wound up with mangled formatting. The correct command will be without the formatting code, and will be something like:

chown -R username:staff /Users/username

Note that there is a Unix category in the Mac OS X Technologies Community.

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