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List:       linux-admin
Subject:    Re: Shell variable
From:       Mofeed Shahin <shahin () labf ! org>
Date:       1998-09-12 18:41:35
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#!/bin/csh

set A = `cat /bin/temp`

echo $A
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But there seems to be the limit of how big the file can be.
I don't know what that is, I'm sure it isn't too difficult to find
out.

> I need to put the contents of a file into a shell variable. e.g contents of
> the file /bin/temp would be stored in the variable A and upon echoing
> variable A i.e $A I should get the output which were stored in file
> /bin/temp. 

Cheers Mof.

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