How do I insert a heredoc into a bash shell script?

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Some background about Here Documents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_document

Simple here document in a bash shell script. When using <<- EOF The minus allows you to indent the code inside a here document.

cat <<- EOF
     lunar2 has been $(uptime -p)
EOF

The output of the script.

$ ./heredoc.sh
lunar2 has been up 20 minutes

If we remove the minus from line one in the code, this is the result. The line appears with the indent included.

$ ./heredoc.sh
        lunar2 has been up 25 minutes