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From: ping@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu (Shiping Zhang)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: How do you pipe after a here document
Message-ID: <1990Nov8.220829.11578@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu>
Date: 8 Nov 90 22:08:29 GMT
References: <1990Nov8.201508.13222@cid.aes.doe.CA>
Reply-To: ping@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu (Shiping Zhang)
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In article <1990Nov8.201508.13222@cid.aes.doe.CA> afsipmh@cidsv01.cid.aes.doe.CA () writes:
 
> I want to do something like the following:
 
>#! /bin/sh
>cat <<END
>I,ve got
>a lovely
>bunch of coconuts
>END 
>| grep coconuts
 
>The above doesn't work so how can I do it?

Try the following:

#! /bin/sh
cat <<END | grep coconuts
I,ve got
a lovely
bunch of coconuts
END 

-ping