Piping here documents

[Paul Falstad]

rhl at grendel.Princeton.EDU (Robert Lupton (the Good)) wrote:
>What's the best way of piping a here document into a long shell script?
>For a one liner

>#!/bin/sh
>cat <<-EOF | sed -e s/Hello/Goodbye/
>  Hello world
>EOF

These should give you some ideas:

#!/bin/sh
cat <<EOF | cat | cat |
Hello world
EOF
sed -e s/Hello/Goodbye/

or:

#! /bin/sh
cat <<EOF | (
Hello world
EOF
sed -e s/Hello/Goodbye/
echo foo
echo bar
)

If this won't help for what you're trying to do, please clarify.

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