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Sometimes you need to use multiple heredocs in a single command. This is possible in Bash using process substitution.
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multiple-heredocs.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash
cat <<. |
1
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diff <<. - <(cat) |
2
.
diff <<. - <(cat) |
3
.
diff <<. - <(cat)
4
.
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I'm assuming this isn't possible with dash right?

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