Unix script does not execute correctly

[Newbie19]

I'm a little new at Unix Scripting, but I was able to get a program to work, but when I added a new section to it, the new section failed to execute.

The main goal of the script is to copy a directory and then compress using tar and then send via ftp to another unix machine.

Here is the section that fails to execute:

usage(){
tar cvzf test.tgz $targetdir

echo "What machine would you like to send these files?"

read $name

transferftp test.tbz $name
}

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Newbie19

[Newbie19]

figured it out, I had a syntaxs error in a pervious part of the code that caused the program to execute without me knowning and didn't pick up till I was debugging in that area.

Thanks,

Newbie19