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Old 03-19-2008
regarding cat and EOF in UNIX

Hi,
Can anyone explain me what this function is doing


cat << EOF > HELPFILE
/$1/ { print "SENT" }
EOF

Thanks in Advance

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Old 03-19-2008
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