Equals Expected, forum readme inconclusive!

Hi. I know, judging by the title, you would just want to delete this post. But here's the issue. The 'Read before Posting' topic is inconclusive about what I should do about my code, which, to my knowledge, has no commands requiring extra parenthesis, and no variables. I would really like help on this code. Thanks! :)/>
http://pastebin.com/8Sc9N6sy

The "import" function is not available in ComputerCraft by default. Since it's not a keyword either, the Lua VM doesn't have a clue what to make of "import shell", and hence figures you probably wanted to stick an equals symbol in there somewhere.

Instead, "shell" is loaded by CraftOS itself when your computer boots. You don't need to try and load it yourself, it's there already.

You might find this tutorial useful. Note that the "shell" table isn't loaded via os.loadAPI(), as most other APIs are; it's generated by the instance of CraftOS you're running your scripts in.

You'll have similar issues with the very next line as well, "clear" isn't a function. Perhaps you meant term.clear()?

Thank you all. There were a bunch more issues I found with my code, but a couple of google searches and the tutorial Bomb Bloke showed me helped me too. I can now fix all my other broken code :D/> Thanks again!

You can try this

local codes = {
   [1] = {
        "70naqtgn",
        "Reboot"
   },
   [2] = {
        "pastebin code",
        "file/to/save/as"
   },
   -- etc.
}

local files = {
   "Reboot",
   "Shutdown",
   "Startup",
   "Update",
   "uoscmds"
}

print("The system is updating...")
print("Please don't turn off your computer until the process is finished.")
print("Stage 1 (Deleting old files)")
for k,v in pairs(files) do
   fs.delete(v)
end
print("Stage 2 (Downloading files)")
for k,v in pairs(codes) do
   shell.run("pastebin get "..v[1].." "..v[2])
end
print("Done!")
print("The system will now reboot in 1 second . . .")
os.sleep(1)
os.reboot()