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I'm practicing some scripts from a book and I keep getting an unexpected end-of-file syntax error. The images below show the error message and the script that uses basic commands to create a system-information html file. The second set of images show my attempt to comment out the problematic lines and run it.

In the top part I have three functions that use here-documents to generate html tags, I'm using the '<<-' switch to allow me to indent the tags for readability. My issue is that the error I mentioned keeps popping up. If I change it to 'echo' commands it works just fine, the weird part is I have a here-document at the bottom of the script, outside of a function and that works just fine if I comment out the three functions. What I am I doing wrong?

dual terminal view: error message and script file

working shoot of script with commented out functions

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Next time, please just use code blocks instead of images. –  Michael Kjörling Apr 24 '14 at 13:33
    
Ok thanks, I was thinking it was hard to read any ways...and I just saw my terrible grammar, sorry. –  KnowButton_Mashing Apr 25 '14 at 8:03
    
Grammar is not a big deal, but you code is not readible without clicking (and not copyable). Copy your code over here, otherwise no-one will help you. –  Bernhard Apr 25 '14 at 11:45
    
Please use text instead of images. We are not about to manually transcribe your code to test it. –  terdon♦ Apr 25 '14 at 11:58

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You are indenting the here-document end marker.

For it to be detected as such, the end marker must come at the beginning of a line of its own.

Unindent the end marker and you will likely find that your script works fine (at least as far as that goes).

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Thank you very much that was the problem. I didn't even realize it, and not only where the markers indented but some even had trailing spaces. Greatly appreciate it Michael. –  KnowButton_Mashing Apr 25 '14 at 8:01

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