redirecting here-document, delimited by end-of-file

Question

I'm trying to print some html text to an html document with a here-script with the following snippet. $file is sometext.html, and whenever I run this I get an error:

line 126: warning: here-document at line 107 delimited by end-of-file (wanted _EOF_)

#!/bin/bash


echo << _EOF_ 
    <html>
    <head>
        <title>
        $TITLE $HOSTNAME
        </title>
    </head>

    <body>
    <h1>$TITLE</h1>
    <p>$pTIME_STAMP</p>
    $(system_info) <br>
    $(show_uptime) <br>
    $(drive_space) <br>
    $(home_space) <br>
    </body>
    </html>
_EOF_ 

exit 0

Edit: I'm mostly copying the answer from How can I write a here doc to a file in Bash script?

Yes, I originally was using cat then tried echo just because, I'll change that back. — mtveezy, Dec 30 '15 at 20:16
Hmmm... this works great for me after switching to `cat`. Is there something else going on in a surrounding script? Is there something odd about the contents of the document (the "html stuff")? — Chris Nauroth, Dec 30 '15 at 20:19
Are you sure the `_EOF_` line is at the left margin, like you show? — Barmar, Dec 30 '15 at 20:22
Or if it's indented, it must be indented with TAB characters, not spaces. — Barmar, Dec 30 '15 at 20:22
Make sure you don't have a space **after** `_EOF_` on that line, either. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12503581/bash-warning-here-document-at-line-delimited-by-end-of-file-wanted-eof — Barmar, Dec 30 '15 at 20:25
@Barmar A tab will work only if the delimiter has a dash `-` : `<<-_EOF_` — , Dec 30 '15 at 20:46
@Barmar Sorry, but I can not see it, I see (copied from the question): `echo << _EOF_`. — , Dec 30 '15 at 20:51
@BinaryZebra He's edited the question. It used to say `cat <<- _EOF_ > "$file"` — Barmar, Dec 30 '15 at 20:53
@mtveezy Why have you put back `echo << _EOF_`? `echo` doesn't use its standard input, so it makes no sense to redirect it. — Barmar, Dec 30 '15 at 20:54
You have a space after `_EOF_`, just like in the duplicate question. — Barmar, Dec 30 '15 at 20:55

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited Dec 30 '15 at 21:43

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Make sure there is no space before and after the last _EOF_

edited Dec 30 '15 at 21:43

answered Dec 30 '15 at 20:30

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