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

[Paul Jarc]

William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> 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'.

eval "blah <<EOT
`cat file`
EOT"

But this breaks if file contains an "EOT" line.


paul