Re: Why can redirection be combined in an assignment statement?

[Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri]

On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 09:23:03PM +0200, Kusalananda Kähäri wrote:
> On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 02:10:49PM -0500, Peng Yu wrote:
> > > Hm...  I think that
> > >
> > >         a=$(cat) <<<"hello"
> > >
> > > is exactly this.  You may replace <<<"hello" by <somefile if you wish.
> > 
> > Did you test it? This just hangs there. I don't think it is useful.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Regards,
> > Peng
> 
> Hmm. Yeah, that was less of a success.


I see what I was doing now.  I started a zsh shell instead of a bash
shell.  That syntax works in zsh.  My apologies.



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Andreas (Kusalananda) Kähäri
SciLifeLab, NBIS, ICM
Uppsala University, Sweden

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