Question

I have the following shell script with finds all the files and then should insert the filenames in to the database. The only problem I have is that I keep getting the error:

./testDBScript.sh: line 16: syntax error: unexpected end of file

I am trying to insert in to a mysql database from my script using the following code in a loop like:

for filename in `find . \! -name [*./]` 
do
    echo "$filename"
    insert_statement_for_db="insert into files(filename) VALUES(\"$filename\");"    
    mysql -h $db_host -u $db_user -D $db_database << finish
    $insert_statement_for_db
    finish
done

How else could I insert in to the database? As tutorials online lead me to that solution.

Answer 1

The format of here-documents is:

<<finish
    here-document
finish

No indentation before finish.