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Filipe

07-17-2007 08:52 AM

Simple Bash Script

I need to put the contents of a file
file.txt in a bash variable...

something like
"cat file.txt>$TXT"
(this doesn´t work)

can you help me ?
Tanks

wimdh

07-17-2007 09:05 AM

This might work:

TXT=`cat file.txt`
echo $TXT

Cheers!

radoulov

07-17-2007 09:07 AM

Code:

TXT="$(<file.txt)"

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