bash error tip `"' -> {

[Ed_P]

If you run a script you've tweaked and get this:

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guest@porteus:~$ ./mkmods/mkmod50nemobkmks.sh
./mkmods/mkmod50nemobkmks.sh: line 82: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
./mkmods/mkmod50nemobkmks.sh: line 114: syntax error: unexpected end of file
guest@porteus:~$ 

Don't waste time looking for `"' or each character individually. The fix was replacing "${DRV" with "$DRV" on line 12.

It took me 2 hrs to find the fix. A dumb copy & paste error.

A more useful error message would have been:

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./mkmods/mkmod50nemobkmks.sh: line 82: unexpected EOF while looking for matching }

[Rava]

From man bash
Have you tried

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       --debugger
              Arrange for the debugger profile to be executed before the shell
              starts.  Turns on extended debugging mode (see  the  description
              of the extdebug option to the shopt builtin below).

and/or

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xtrace  Same as -x.

?

[Ed_P]

Have you tried

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       --debugger

No. Don't know where to put it in a script.

and/or

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xtrace  Same as -x.

No. Don't know where to put it in a script.

To debug I use:

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set -x;

[Rava]

set -x is a good start.
And welcome to coding hell when it comes to bugs in your code. The error output is often not that specific.
But that is where either your own knowledge and coding skills kick in. Or a specialised forum like Stack Overflow where there are folks much more knowledgable than you and me put together pointing out the errors of our way error(s) in our code.

[Ed_P]