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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting shell scripts do not exit once completed Post 302690249 by bakunin on Wednesday 22nd of August 2012 04:48:43 PM
Old 08-22-2012
The first thing is you have written

Code:
command .... << EOF

instead of

Code:
command .... <<EOF

notice the space character, which may be a problem.

further, you have indented the code, which is not entirely possible with here-documents: the closing "EOF" must be at the beginning of the line:

Code:
# this will work:
command .... <<EOF
text to send to command
EOF

# but this will not, because of the last line:
command .... <<EOF
    text to send to command
    EOF

You can use indented closing clauses if you prepend the opening clause with a minus sign:

Code:
# this will work:
command .... <<-WORKSTOO
   text to send to command
   WORKSTOO

but don't know if this is the case in ksh too, i only know for sure it works in bash.

I suggest you go over this script (which has some other design deficits too)
with someone knowledgeable to make it better written.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
Last edited by bakunin; 08-23-2012 at 05:11 AM..
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