Re: [Help-bash] How to let a command take multiple here-doc?

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/31/15 8:38 PM, Peng Yu wrote:

> Also, the above link shows the following example. I am not sure why it
> is usefully to intertwine the heredocs of the two separate commands.
> Does anybody know?
> 
> cat <<eof1; cat <<eof2
> Hi,
> eof1
> Helene.
> eof2

Remember that the shell always reads at least one complete line before
parsing it into commands.  The list command created from the command line
above needs two here-documents to complete; they are read from the standard
input one after the other.  There's nothing unusual about it.

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