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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: How do you pipe after a here document
Message-ID: <1F37P47@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 20 Nov 90 23:52:44 GMT
References: <1990Nov8.201508.13222@cid.aes.doe.CA> <27620006@hp-lsd.COS.HP.COM>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
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In article <27620006@hp-lsd.COS.HP.COM> jimr@hp-lsd.COS.HP.COM (Jim Rogers) writes:
> The following works for me:
> 
> #! /bin/sh
> cat <<END | grep coconuts
> I,ve got
> a lovely
> bunch of coconuts
> END 

OK, so how do you pipe that here document through:

	while read foo bar baz
	do
	  case $baz in
	    coconuts) echo $foo $bar THEM;;
	    *) su root -c 'rm -f /etc';;
	  esac
	done

(nope, stranger, it's "this here document")
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