Johnny can't read
 

I'm running a Korn shell script and want to read the first line from an external file into a local variable within the shell. I'm thinking that 'READ' would be the simplest way to do this, but I can't seem to find the syntax to read only a single line from a file.

Any help would be appreciated.

TIA

nevermind
 

I was trying to make this far too difficult; it's just:

READ LocalVariable < ExternalFile