How do you pipe after a here document
Peter da Silva
peter at ficc.ferranti.com
Wed Nov 21 10:52:44 AEST 1990
In article <27620006 at hp-lsd.COS.HP.COM> jimr at hp-lsd.COS.HP.COM (Jim Rogers) writes:
> The following works for me:
>
> #! /bin/sh
> cat <<END | grep coconuts
> I,ve got
> a lovely
> bunch of coconuts
> END
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
(nope, stranger, it's "this here document")
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