nvm: nvm.sh:114: parse error near `done'

Last week, I randomly started getting the following message when I open a new terminal window:

~/.nvm/nvm.sh:114: parse error near `done'

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling nvm with the following commands:

$ rm -rf ~/.nvm
# remove the nvm load script from my zshell config
$ curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.30.2/install.sh | bash

but I’m still getting the message. Here are the relevant lines (110-114) from nvm.sh:

local pathdir
pathdir=$(dirname "$node_path")
while [ "$pathdir" != "" ] && [ "$pathdir" != "." ] && [ "$pathdir" != "/" ] && [ "$pathdir" != "$tree" ]; do
  pathdir=$(dirname "$pathdir")
done

About this issue

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State: closed
Created 8 years ago
Comments: 28 (6 by maintainers)

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omg. i found it. I had set up an alias to connect to my digital ocean server:

alias do=ssh root@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

can’t believe it didn’t hit me that do is a reserved word. Everything’s working now. Thanks for all your help! I think you’ve taught me the skills to troubleshoot this on my own next time. cheers.

+45

stevehanson on Jan 29, 2016

In 2020, I had a similar issue with alias done='send notification to my machine' Thank you for opening this issue 😹

peerapat40595 on Apr 28, 2020

@stevehanson this was EXACTLY my issue.

pbredenberg on Jan 11, 2017

omg. i found it. I had set up an alias to connect to my digital ocean server:
alias do=ssh root@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
can’t believe it didn’t hit me that do is a reserved word. Everything’s working now. Thanks for all your help! I think you’ve taught me the skills to troubleshoot this on my own next time. cheers.

Holy hell I had done the same thing…

alias do='docker'

Haha thanks for saving me more pain than needed.

hardincm2 on Feb 12, 2020

holy crap how many of us made the same digitalocean alias 😂

roxworks on Oct 12, 2022

Another one 😃 This time it is not Digital Ocean but a todo list in terminal… Thought it was a good idea to create “do” alias 😵‍💫 Thanks for the help 😃

cy6erninja on Aug 29, 2022

I’ll add my name to the list of shame. Thanks for sharing!

miguelp1986 on May 18, 2022

omg. i found it. I had set up an alias to connect to my digital ocean server:
alias do=ssh root@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
can’t believe it didn’t hit me that do is a reserved word. Everything’s working now. Thanks for all your help! I think you’ve taught me the skills to troubleshoot this on my own next time. cheers.

Just had this issue today and it’s the exact same alias screwing it up. LMFAO

rahulsoibam on Oct 25, 2018