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Re: How do you pipe after a here document

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From: D'Arcy J.M. Cain
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 1990 12:46
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In article <1990Nov8.201508.13222@cid.aes.doe.CA> afsipmh@cidsv01.cid.aes.doe.CA () writes:
>
>#! /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?

Well the last line has no connection to the rest of the script so I am not
suprised.  I assume you tried putting it on the same line as "END" and saw
that there was no effect either.  The answer is to put it on the "cat" line
like this:

cat | grep coconuts << END

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