130:132: syntax error: Expected end of line, etc. but found real number. (-2741)-CodePudding

#!/bin/bash

printf 'Starting Text Script... \nWhat number would you like to text?\n'
read number

msg="When..."
/usr/bin/osascript - "$@" << END
tell application "Messages" to send "$msg" to buddy "$number" 
END
sleep .1

msg="Cause..."
/usr/bin/osascript - "$@" << END
tell application "Messages" to send "$msg" to buddy "$number" 
END                         
sleep .1

msg="Laughing..."
/usr/bin/osascript - "$@" << END
tell application "Messages" to send "$msg" to buddy "$number" 
END
sleep .1

msg="Like..."
/usr/bin/osascript - "$@" << END
tell application "Messages" to send "$msg" to buddy "$number" 
END
sleep .1

this is the beginning of a script that sends a series of messages to an inputted number (just a script for fun to mess with a friend a bit). For some reason, the 1st message and every message at and after the 4th message; but the 2nd and 3rd message do not send and I get the listed error. I am confused since they are all written the same and only those two fail. I don't have much experience with apple scripts, so I am sure my error is somewhere in there.

I initially had the second value of msg set to "'Cause...", but I thought that's what was causing my error so I removed it. I am also thinking about having the script take input of a number and filepath instead and then reading each line of the file as a separate msg to send, but I am not positive how to achieve that. Any and all help is greatly appreciated!

CodePudding user response：

Remove all white spaces after END.

CodePudding user response：

There was trailing white space on the closing on line 15 of the script. Not sure how it got there haha.