On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 19:55, Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Peng Yu wrote: >> cat file.txt | sqlite3 main.db <<EOF > > you only get 1 stdin ... either via the pipe or the heredoc. give > everything you want to the first cat and worry about sqlite only > consuming the pipe. > > cat file.txt - <<EOF | sqlite3 main.db > ... > EOF
However, that does not achieve what Peng Yu wants; indeed, it would seem that Peng Yu is confusing Bash's Here Documents with Perl's here-documents. My suggestion is to use bash quoting and escaping as necessary; as with Perl, Bash strings may span multiple lines.
