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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] rc funny - still perplexed
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Date: Fri,  3 Jan 2003 11:27:23 -0500
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Perhaps I wasn't clear.  It's not just
that EOF2 has to go in the first column.
The here document does not start until all the
braces close.

If you want the second example to print "ls | mc"
rather than run that command, you have to say

{
	cat <<'EOF2'
	other commands here
}
# here document for cat starts here
ls | mc
EOF2