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From: dattier@ddsw1.MCS.COM (David W. Tamkin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: How do you pipe after a here document
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Message-ID: <1990Nov10.055023.7851@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 10 Nov 90 05:50:23 GMT
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Reply-To: dattier@ddsw1.MCS.COM (David W. Tamkin)
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afsipmh@cidsv01.cid.aes.doe.CA (Pat Hertel) wrote in
<1990Nov8.201508.13222@cid.aes.doe.CA>:

|  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?

Two other people have suggested

cat << END | grep coconuts
I've got 
a lovely
bunch of coconuts
END

That works in sh, and so does this:

{ cat << END
I've got
a lovely
bunch of coconuts
END                    # or END ;} | grep coconuts
} | grep coconuts      #

and, believe it or not, so does this:

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

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