Unexpected EOF error

Question

I am getting error on below line in shell script i have tried Curly bracket but it wont work, my code is as follow:

VAL11=$(${ORACLE_HOME}/bin/sqlplus -s '/' << EOF
                SELECT COUNT(*) FROM DBA_USERS WHERE USERNAME=upper('$SCHEMA_NAME');
                EOF
                )

I am Getting Below error:

bkp_on_req_2.sh: line 74: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `)' bkp_on_req_2.sh: line 170: syntax error: unexpected end of file

Answer 1

thanks to NullDev

VAL11=$(${ORACLE_HOME}/bin/sqlplus -s '/' <<-EOF SELECT COUNT(*) FROM DBA_USERS WHERE USERNAME=upper('$SCHEMA_NAME'); EOF )

Answer 2

The ending tag for heredoc "EOF" should start from the first character of the line.

So third line of your code should be
EOF
instead of
           EOF