Piping here documents

[Kris Stephens [Hail Eris!]]

In article <6061 at idunno.Princeton.EDU> rhl at grendel.Princeton.EDU (Robert Lupton (the Good)) writes:
>What's the best way of piping a here document into a long shell script?

I usually do multi-line here-documents in a function...

--- start sample ---
:
# sh or ksh

#
# Database search function
#
searcher() {
	dbquery $DBNAME <<EOF
	retrieve ( r.a, r.b, r.c ) where
		r.a = $astring and
		r.b = $bstring
		$sort
EOF
	}

#
# Start of mainline code (usually done with getopts and the like,
# so this is just a brief alternative without arg testing etc.)
#
astring="${1:-*}"
bstring="${2:-*}"
sort="sort by ${3:-r.a}"
DBNAME="${4:-mydatabase}"

#
# call searcher to get records from the db,
# sed to delete the last line (row count),
# and lp the results.
#
# (Talk about nonsense!!  :-)
#
searcher |
sed '$d' |
lp

exit $?
--- end sample ---

...Kris
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