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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: How do you pipe after a here document
Message-ID: <1990Dec02.002915.16848@virtech.uucp>
Date: 2 Dec 90 00:29:15 GMT
References: <1990Nov8.201508.13222@cid.aes.doe.CA> <27620006@hp-lsd.COS.HP.COM> <1F37P47@xds13.ferranti.com>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
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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
>	  ....
>	done

With the following:

#! /bin/sh
cat <<END |
I,ve got
a lovely
bunch of coconuts
END
while read foo bar baz
do
	echo $foo
done
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