Bash: warning: here-document at line delimited by end-of-file (wanted `EOF')

bash eof heredoc
slooow picture slooow · Sep 20, 2012 · Viewed 30.5k times · Source

The following function in bash comes up with the error mentioned in the title. The error usually appears when the final EOF is not at the beginning of the line.

EOF is at the beginning so I can't see what is wrong. Further up in the script (not shown) there are other here-docs and they work.

add_testuser()
{
    kadmin -p admin -q addprinc test
    cat <<EOF > ~/test.ldif
dn: cn=test,ou=groups,dc=${ARRAY[1]},dc=${ARRAY[2]}
cn: test
gidNumber: 20001
objectClass: top
objectClass: posixGroup

dn: uid=test,ou=people,dc=${ARRAY[1]},dc=${ARRAY[2]}
uid: test
uidNumber: 20001
gidNumber: 20001
cn: First_name
sn: Last_name
objectClass: top
objectClass: person
objectClass: posixAccount
objectClass: shadowAccount
loginShell: /bin/bash
homeDirectory: /home/test
userPassword: {CRYPT}*
EOF 

    ldapadd -Qf ~/test.ldif
    kdestroy; kinit test
    klist
    ldapwhoami
}

Answer

doubleDown picture doubleDown · Oct 16, 2012

You have a space after the final EOF hence it was unable to terminate the heredoc.

p/s: Noticed this while copy-pasting your code.

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