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From: eddjp@edi386.UUCP ( Dewey Paciaffi )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: How do you pipe after a here document
Message-ID: <121@edi386.UUCP>
Date: 9 Nov 90 14:52:57 GMT
References: <1990Nov8.201508.13222@cid.aes.doe.CA>
Reply-To: eddjp@edi386.UUCP ( Dewey Paciaffi )
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In article <1990Nov8.201508.13222@cid.aes.doe.CA> afsipmh@cidsv01.cid.aes.doe.CA () writes:
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- I want to do something like the following:
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-#! /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?

Like this:

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


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