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From: jimr@hp-lsd.COS.HP.COM (Jim Rogers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: How do you pipe after a here document
Message-ID: <27620008@hp-lsd.COS.HP.COM>
Date: 13 Nov 90 17:32:33 GMT
References: <1990Nov8.201508.13222@cid.aes.doe.CA>
Organization: HP Logic Systems Division - ColoSpgs, CO
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Another approach is to use functions in your shell:
(This example works in KSH also)


#!/bin/sh
# create a function to pipe to, if you want
write_it () {
bold=`tput bold`
while read words
do
echo "${bold}${words}"
done
}
#Place the here document inside a function.  The results of the function
#can be piped to any process which reads from stdin.
here_cat () {
cat << BYE
This is
the test
of the use
of a HERE
document 
in the SH
BYE
}
# Invoke the "here function" and pipe its output to something.
here_cat | write_it




Jim Rogers
Hewlett Packard Company