Re: (feature request) here-document, but from a file

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, William Park wrote:

> Dear Chet,
>
> It would be nice if I can read a file and process it as though it was
> here-document text in the script.  Mainly, I want variable substitution,
> without calling lots of 'sed'.
>
> In Python, you would do
>    print "..." % ...
>
> So, perhaps, you can use syntax like
>    cat <<+ file
>    cat <<<< file

    Why can't you use:

cat < file

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