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Old 07-17-2007, 08:52 AM   #1
Filipe
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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
 
Old 07-17-2007, 09:05 AM   #2
wimdh
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This might work:

TXT=`cat file.txt`
echo $TXT


Cheers!
 
Old 07-17-2007, 09:07 AM   #3
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Code:
TXT="$(<file.txt)"
 
  


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