syntax error near unexpected token `

I am facing a problem when trying to echo all the child directory of the present directory.

Now my code is like this:

for d in */; do echo "$d"; done 

I tried with this as well:

for d in */; do echo $d; done 

But every time I am getting the same error. This is:

'/test.sh: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token ` '/test.sh: line 1: `for d in */; 

How to solve this? Definitely I am doing some mistake. But can't figure it out.

1 Answer

The command itself works fine:

$ for d in */; do echo "$d" ; done subdir-A/ subdir-B/ 

However you have a hidden ' in front of the for command. Perhaps the file was copied from Windows. The easiest solution is to create a new test.sh file and copy the above command into it.