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From: jon@jonlab.UUCP (Jon H. LaBadie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: How do you pipe after a here document
Summary: put the pipe on the command line
Message-ID: <873@jonlab.UUCP>
Date: 10 Nov 90 23:39:18 GMT
References: <1990Nov8.201508.13222@cid.aes.doe.CA>
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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?

The pipe symbol (not necessarily the command, but the symbol)
must be on the current command line.  The current command line
is "cat ...".

Either of the following will work:

	cat <<END | grep coconuts
	...
	END

or

	cat <<-END |
		...
		END
	grep coconuts

Note, in the second example, I also used the "-" notation of the
here document to allow the document to be indented by tabs.
This has no effect on the pipeline and could be omitted.  It is
a readability issue.

Jon

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Jon LaBadie
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