How do you pipe after a here document

[David W. Tamkin]

afsipmh at cidsv01.cid.aes.doe.CA (Pat Hertel) wrote in
<1990Nov8.201508.13222 at cid.aes.doe.CA>:

|  I want to do something like the following:
| 
| #! /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?

Two other people have suggested

cat << END | grep coconuts
I've got 
a lovely
bunch of coconuts
END

That works in sh, and so does this:

{ cat << END
I've got
a lovely
bunch of coconuts
END                    # or END ;} | grep coconuts
} | grep coconuts      #

and, believe it or not, so does this:

grep coconuts << END
I've got 
a lovely
bunch of coconuts
END

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