Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello folks,
I am facing a problem with the following korn shell script snippet:
ftp -n -i -v <<EOF
print -p open $CURR_HOST
print -p user $USER $PASSWD
print -p binary
print -p cd /mydir/subdir/datadir
print -p get $FILENAME
print -p bye

EOF
exit
It gives me the following error
./EDW_FTP.sh[27]: syntax error at line 41 : `<<' unmatched
This FTP code snippet is inside a for loop which goes like this:
for ctr in ${hosts}
where hosts is an array.

I am running it in a Solaris UNIX environment.
Thanks.

Is the code indented in the actual script, by any chance? If so, try putting the "EOF" in the leftmost column (i.e. no white space before it).

Also, the print -p commands are unnecessary, as the shell reads the here doc in as it is.

Yes the code is indented ... so what should the line containing the EOF look like?

Code:

        ftp -n -i -v <<EOF
                open $CURR_HOST
                user $USER $PASSWD
                binary
                cd /mydir/subdir/datadir
                get $FILENAME
                bye
EOF
        exit

In some shells if you use the <<- EOF operator (which strips white space off the beginning of the input lines to allow you to indent) it will recognise the end-of-here-document marker whether it is indented or not.