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

[Chet Ramey]

Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> 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

Because he wants variable substitution.  Something like

cat <<< "$(< file)"

might work.

Chet



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