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Old 06-23-2012
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Originally Posted by Scott
It might appear to work, but the rest of the script becomes part of the "here-document" if the closing EOFTP is missing. It's also possible to use TAB before EOFTP (if not spaces), which is perhaps what you have shown in post #3?
You can use tab before the heredoc delimiter, but only if the redirection operator is <<-.

I'm assuming that the shell chose to silently delimit the unterminated heredoc when it reached the end of the script. Unfortunate. A warning would have been helpful. A syntax error better still.

Regards,
Alister
# 9  
Old 06-24-2012
I never use <<- because I think it is too iffy. If even one space happens to be there, it will not work...

bash 3 is using the old Bourne Shell behavior, bash 4 adds an extra warning
Code:
bash 3:    ./test.sh: line 9: syntax error: unexpected end of file
bash 4:    ./test.sh: line 8: warning: here-document at line 3 delimited by end-of-file (wanted `EOFTP')
           ./test.sh: line 9: syntax error: unexpected end of file
bourne-sh: ./test.sh: syntax error at line 9: `end of file' unexpected
ksh88:     ./test.sh[2]: syntax error at line 3 : `<<' unmatched
ksh93:     ./test.sh: syntax error at line 3: `<<' unmatched
dash:      ./test.sh: 9: ./test1627c: Syntax error: end of file unexpected (expecting "fi")
zsh:       ./test.sh:9: parse error near `\n'

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