here-document gives 'unexpected end of file' error

Question

I need my script to send an email from terminal. Based on what I\'ve seen here and many other places online, I formatted it like this:

Answer 1

The line that starts or ends the here-doc probably has some non-printable or whitespace characters (for example, carriage return) which means that the second "EOF" does not match the first, and doesn't end the here-doc like it should. This is a very common error, and difficult to detect with just a text editor. You can make non-printable characters visible for example with cat:

cat -A myfile.sh

Once you see the output from cat -A the solution will be obvious: remove the offending characters.