I'm not sure what the output file will be used for... I'm an Oracle guy and routinely create files to be executed by a sqlloader/sqlplus application...in this context sometimes simple statements such as:

set lines 32
set pages 0
set feedback off
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etc... need to be executed and don't require semicolons...just newlines. Make sure (be this the case for you as well) that your script doesn't end up managing these statements in an undesireable fashion.