Bash: warning: here-document at line delimited by end-of-file (wanted `EOF')

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The following function in bash comes up with the error mentioned in the title. The error usually appears when the final EOF is not at the beginning of the line.

EOF is at the beginning so I can't see what is wrong. Further up in the script (not shown) there are other here-docs and they work.

add_testuser()
{
    kadmin -p admin -q addprinc test
    cat <<EOF > ~/test.ldif
dn: cn=test,ou=groups,dc=${ARRAY[1]},dc=${ARRAY[2]}
cn: test
gidNumber: 20001
objectClass: top
objectClass: posixGroup

dn: uid=test,ou=people,dc=${ARRAY[1]},dc=${ARRAY[2]}
uid: test
uidNumber: 20001
gidNumber: 20001
cn: First_name
sn: Last_name
objectClass: top
objectClass: person
objectClass: posixAccount
objectClass: shadowAccount
loginShell: /bin/bash
homeDirectory: /home/test
userPassword: {CRYPT}*
EOF 

    ldapadd -Qf ~/test.ldif
    kdestroy; kinit test
    klist
    ldapwhoami
}

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@tripleee It's an exact duplicate: this question explicitly points out that there is no indentation, where the dupe target's problem _was_ indentation (even though you have to read through comments to see that). OTOH, it might be considered canonical because the top answer addresses both concerns. — Benjamin W., Nov 26 '17 at 20:00
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score 39 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 16 '12 at 07:10

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You have a space after the final EOF hence it was unable to terminate the heredoc.

p/s: Noticed this while copy-pasting your code.

answered Oct 16 '12 at 07:10

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Certainly, this fixed a similar problem I had - an extra space after the here-document terminator string. – David Ramirez Sep 26 '13 at 14:43
Not always a space in my case it was a tab. – nelaaro Apr 10 '15 at 16:47
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Nice sleuthing; the bottom line is that _nothing_ may be placed after the closing here-document delimiter. – mklement0 Jun 16 '15 at 11:33
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Indenting the "EOF" also seemed to invalidate it, in my case. – James M. Lay Jul 07 '16 at 20:53

Bash: warning: here-document at line delimited by end-of-file (wanted `EOF')

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