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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to put content of file into a variable? Post 302462156 by 14th on Wednesday 13th of October 2010 11:40:56 AM
Old 10-13-2010
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Originally Posted by Corona688
They are there, but doing echo $var instead of echo "$var" has the side-effect of flattening out all whitespace.

What are you attempting by putting an entire fire in a variable? There's probably better and safer ways to do what you want. Many shells have a variable size limit, so this is only guaranteed to work when the file is tiny...
yes, the file's size is small.
It's only contain less then 10 lines, and only have a few words each line.
thanks
 

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