unexpected EOF while looking for matching `)'

Question

I am getting the following 2 error outputs when i try to run manually my script below. What i do not understand is why does it complain that it can not find matching character for

')'

? where as if i extract whats inside the

then/fi

and put this into a single file and run it it on its own it works just fine as in it sends email as it should.

./rsnapshot-log-checker: line 15: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `)'

./rsnapshot-log-checker: line 25: syntax error: unexpected end of file



grep "ERROR" /var/log/rsnapshot.log | \

while read line ; do

        echo "$line" | grep "ERROR"

        if [ $? = 0 ]

        then

                to=warning@bla.com

                subject="Error rsnapshot - `hostname`"

                from=`hostname`@bla.com

                daemail=$(cat <<! <-- line 15

                        From: $from

                        To: $to Subject:

                        $subject You might want to check this... !) <-- maching haracter for )



                echo "$daemail" | /usr/sbin/sendmail -t

        fi

done

<-- line 25

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Answer 1

You are using Here document redirection operator(<<) on line 15 that is causing issue. Use following:

daemail=$(cat
         echo "From:" $from
         echo  "To:" $to "Subject:"
         echo  $subject "You might want to check this... !")

unexpected EOF while looking for matching `)'

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