Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Path: utzoo!telly!druid!darcy
From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Subject: Re: How do you pipe after a here document
Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting, West Hill, Ontario
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Date: Sat, 10 Nov 90 12:46:24 GMT
Message-ID: <1990Nov10.124624.9134@druid.uucp>
References: <1990Nov8.201508.13222@cid.aes.doe.CA>

In article <1990Nov8.201508.13222@cid.aes.doe.CA> afsipmh@cidsv01.cid.aes.doe.CA () writes:
>
>#! /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?

Well the last line has no connection to the rest of the script so I am not
suprised.  I assume you tried putting it on the same line as "END" and saw
that there was no effect either.  The answer is to put it on the "cat" line
like this:

cat | grep coconuts << END

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