stanford parse bash script error - linux bash

Can someone help me check my bash script? i'm trying to feed a directory of .txt files to the stanford parser (http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/pos-tagger-faq.shtml) but i can't get it to work. i'm working on ubuntu 10.10

the loop is working and reading the right files with:

#!/bin/bash -x
cd $HOME/path/to
for file in 'dir -d *'
do
#       $HOME/chinesesegmenter-2006-05-11/segment.sh ctb $file UTF-8
        echo $file
done

but with

#!/bin/bash -x
cd $HOME/yoursing/sentseg_zh
for file in 'dir -d *'
do
#       echo $file
        $HOME/chinesesegmenter-2006-05-11/segment.sh ctb $file UTF-8
done

i'm getting this error:

alvas@ikoma:~/chinesesegmenter-2006-05-11$ bash segchi.sh
Standard: CTB
File: dir
Encoding: -d
-------------------------------
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: edu/stanford/nlp/ie/crf/CRFClassifier
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: edu.stanford.nlp.ie.crf.CRFClassifier
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:217)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:321)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:294)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:266)
Could not find the main class: edu.stanford.nlp.ie.crf.CRFClassifier. Program will exit.

the following command works:

~/chinesesegmenter-2006-05-11/segment.sh ctb ~/path/to/input.txt UTF-8

and output this

alvas@ikoma:~/chinesesegmenter-2006-05-11$ ./segment.sh ctb ~/path/to/input.txt UTF-8
Standard: CTB
File: /home/alvas/path/to/input.txt
Encoding: UTF-8
-------------------------------
Loading classifier from data/ctb.gz...done [1.5 sec].
Using ChineseSegmenterFeatureFactory
Reading data using CTBSegDocumentReader
Sequence tagging 7 documents
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As well as the : (colon), which should be a ; or a new line, the 'dir -d *' doesn't do what you think it does - the loop will just have one iteration, where file is a long string beginning with dir -d and with all your files afterwards. Also, you initially change to a path based on $file but then reuse the variable file in your loop, which is suspect. I'm having to guess somewhat about your intent, but it can be much simpler, e.g.:

#!/bin/bash
cd ~/path/to/whereever
for file in *
do
     ~/chinesesegmenter-2006-05-11/segment.sh ctb "$file" UTF-8
done

Even if you used the (more correct) version with backticks:

for file in `dir -d *`

... it would still qualify for a Useless Use of ls * Award ;)

Update: originally I forgot to quote $file, as pointed out in another answer

You could try:

for file in *
do
    $HOME/segment.sh ctb "$file" UTF-8
done

So there were a couple of things to correct:

• Don't use : after the for statement, use ; or a newline
• Put quotation marks around the "$file" object to allow whitespaces in file name
• If you want to use a command where you put 'dir -d *' you should use $(dir -d *) or angle quation marks instead ``

for file in 'dir -d *': do

You've put a colon instead of a semicolon.

If you want an easy debugging, you can add -x as an option to your shebang :

#!/bin/bash -x

The errors will be easier to spot.