What Is a Syntax Error?

Video Transcript

"Hello, today we are talking about what is a syntax error? A syntax error is essentially whenever you are working with any kind of command line based face, whether you are using a PC, a Macintosh, a Linux Space Box, whatever the case might be. When you issue a command within the command line, and you either have a typo or some kind of illegal entry into the system. That would be, that would constitute at that point a syntax error. For instance, using dos, this is the example of a good syntax error using the copy command with a forward slash y switch. With your source as c colon backslash text dot t x t and your destination is d colon backslash text dot t x t. And essentially what this will do is copy this file to this location. This is the bad example of syntax. When you're using copy backslash y. With any switches in the dos, th correct syntax is a forward slash. And then whatever switch you're using. And then you have a source which is c colon backslash text dot t x t, which is fine, except you don't have a destination. So this is an example of bad syntax. So you're good syntax is a good sequence with your source destination, and then the bad syntax is an illegal switch with no destination. So that is what a syntax error is."