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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: How do you pipe after a here document
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Date: 27 Nov 90 18:19:52 GMT
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In article <1F37P47@xds13.ferranti.com>,
	peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
)...
)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

cat << EOF | while read x
foo
bar
baz
EOF
do
	echo x=$x
done
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