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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: How do you pipe after a here document
Message-ID: <1990Nov8.233350.8495@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 8 Nov 90 23:33:50 GMT
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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?

How about:

grep coconuts <<END
I,ve got
a lovely
bunch of coconuts
END 

 or even:

(  cat <<END
I,ve got
a lovely
bunch of coconuts
END 
) | grep coconuts

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
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