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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users unexpected EOF Post 302157621 by gus2000 on Friday 11th of January 2008 01:26:56 PM
Old 01-11-2008
The script above has absolutely no leading spaces. Is that really how the script looks, or was the formatting the result of cut-and-paste? I ask because the EOF terminator must be exactly that and no more:

[code]
cat <<EOF
This works!
EOF

cat <<EOF
This won't recognize the EOF below because of the leading spaces!
EOF

cat <<-EOF
Ah-ha, but the dash before EOF will strip leading tabs (from text and the EOF)
EOF
[code]

Of course, you also have mismatched backticks in your last "date" command:

Code:
echo 'ymd='date +%Y%m%d' >> $LOG_FILE

You don't need them at all! Try this:

Code:
date "+ymd=%Y%m%d" >> $LOG_FILE

Using backticks or $( ) should be functionally equivilant, although I find the latter easier to read.
 

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tcl_allowexceptions

Tcl_AllowExceptions(3)					      Tcl Library Procedures					    Tcl_AllowExceptions(3)

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

NAME

       Tcl_AllowExceptions - allow all exceptions in next script evaluation

SYNOPSIS

       #include <tcl.h>

       Tcl_AllowExceptions(interp)

ARGUMENTS

       Tcl_Interp *interp (in)		Interpreter in which script will be evaluated.
_________________________________________________________________

DESCRIPTION

       If  a  script is evaluated at top-level (i.e. no other scripts are pending evaluation when the script is invoked), and if the script termi-
       nates with a completion code other than TCL_OK, TCL_ERROR or TCL_RETURN, then Tcl normally converts this into a TCL_ERROR  return  with	an
       appropriate  message.  The particular script evaluation procedures of Tcl that act in the manner are Tcl_EvalObjEx, Tcl_EvalObjv, Tcl_Eval,
       Tcl_EvalEx, Tcl_GlobalEval, Tcl_GlobalEvalObj, Tcl_VarEval and Tcl_VarEvalVA.

       However, if Tcl_AllowExceptions is invoked immediately before calling one of those a procedures, then arbitrary completion codes  are  per-
       mitted from the script, and they are returned without modification.  This is useful in cases where the caller can deal with exceptions such
       as TCL_BREAK or TCL_CONTINUE in a meaningful way.

KEYWORDS

       continue, break, exception, interpreter

Tcl									7.4						    Tcl_AllowExceptions(3)
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