How do you pipe after a here document

Conor P. Cahill cpcahil at virtech.uucp
Sun Dec 2 11:29:15 AEST 1990


In article <1F37P47 at xds13.ferranti.com> peter at 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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