Re: Bash error message for unterminated heredoc is unhelpful.

[Chet Ramey]

Richard Neill wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> In some cases, bash gives exceptionally unhelpful error messages, of the
> sort "Unexpected end of file". This is next-to-useless as a debugging
> aid, since there is no way to find out where the error really lies.

For better or worse, bash allows end-of-file to delimit a here document.
That is historical sh behavior.

The end-of-file syntax error message comes when the shell tries to read
the token following the here document.

Chet

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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/