Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: > William Park 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'. > > > >In Python, you would do > > print "..." % ... > > > >So, perhaps, you can use syntax like > > cat <<+ file > > cat <<<< file > > Why can't you use: > > cat < file
The original poster said that the behavior wanted was variable substitution as in a here-document. Using 'cat < file' would not expand any variables. However counter proposals are useful. Will this work for you? eval echo $(<file) That will expand variables from the file using existing standard syntax. Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
