https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/difference-between-lt-lt-eof-and-lt-lt-eos/m-p/3204689#M167331 you can specify that one or more commands in your script read input from lines within your script, rather then from your terminal. To do this, use the I/O redirection operator &lt;&lt;, followed by an arbitary delimiter-word. The lines starting after the next newline and continuing until a line containing only the delimiter-word, are called a here-document.<BR /><BR />with &lt;<EOF the="" delimiter-word="" is="" eof="" and="" with=""></EOF> Fri, 27 Feb 2004 15:00:19 GMT curt larson_1 2004-02-27T15:00:19Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/difference-between-lt-lt-eof-and-lt-lt-eos/m-p/3204688#M167330 Just curious what the differences are between the use of the &lt;<EOF and="" the=""></EOF> Fri, 27 Feb 2004 14:50:09 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/difference-between-lt-lt-eof-and-lt-lt-eos/m-p/3204688#M167330 Kim Kendall 2004-02-27T14:50:09Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/difference-between-lt-lt-eof-and-lt-lt-eos/m-p/3204689#M167331 you can specify that one or more commands in your script read input from lines within your script, rather then from your terminal. To do this, use the I/O redirection operator &lt;&lt;, followed by an arbitary delimiter-word. The lines starting after the next newline and continuing until a line containing only the delimiter-word, are called a here-document.<BR /><BR />with &lt;<EOF the="" delimiter-word="" is="" eof="" and="" with=""></EOF> Fri, 27 Feb 2004 15:00:19 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/difference-between-lt-lt-eof-and-lt-lt-eos/m-p/3204689#M167331 curt larson_1 2004-02-27T15:00:19Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/difference-between-lt-lt-eof-and-lt-lt-eos/m-p/3204690#M167332 You can put whatever you want<BR /><BR /> ssomething &lt;&lt; KIM<BR /><BR />you code here<BR /><BR />KIM.<BR /><BR />It will read input till it encounters KIM. Fri, 27 Feb 2004 15:03:42 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/difference-between-lt-lt-eof-and-lt-lt-eos/m-p/3204690#M167332 RAC_1 2004-02-27T15:03:42Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/difference-between-lt-lt-eof-and-lt-lt-eos/m-p/3204691#M167333 Great! Thats what I was looking for... what it is called ... "here documents"<BR /><BR />Thx! Fri, 27 Feb 2004 15:17:47 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/difference-between-lt-lt-eof-and-lt-lt-eos/m-p/3204691#M167333 Kim Kendall 2004-02-27T15:17:47Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/difference-between-lt-lt-eof-and-lt-lt-eos/m-p/3204692#M167334 Hi Kim,<BR /><BR />yes, it's a "here document." There is a small mention of them in the sh-posix man page, if you search for &lt;&lt;<BR /><BR />regards,<BR /><BR />Darren. Mon, 01 Mar 2004 05:43:14 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/difference-between-lt-lt-eof-and-lt-lt-eos/m-p/3204692#M167334 Darren Prior 2004-03-01T05:43:14Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/difference-between-lt-lt-eof-and-lt-lt-eos/m-p/3204693#M167335 You just have to watched out for little mistakes, like putting a space between "&lt;&lt;" and "KIM". I wasted a lot of time with typos like that. Mon, 01 Mar 2004 07:26:50 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/difference-between-lt-lt-eof-and-lt-lt-eos/m-p/3204693#M167335 hein coulier 2004-03-01T07:26:50Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/difference-between-lt-lt-eof-and-lt-lt-eos/m-p/3204694#M167336 I've seen examples like :<BR /><BR /><COMMAND> &lt;&lt;-EOS "<BR /> ___more commands<BR /> ___more commands "<BR /> ___EOS<BR /><BR />Where "___" is whitespace.<BR /><BR />Using quotes and whitespace (if you preface the EOS with a dash)</COMMAND> Mon, 01 Mar 2004 09:11:31 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/difference-between-lt-lt-eof-and-lt-lt-eos/m-p/3204694#M167336 Kim Kendall 2004-03-01T09:11:31Z