One may also do: read x < temp in bash Tristen Brian Dessent wrote: > "Silva, Russell" wrote: >>> x=`/usr/bin/cat < temp`; >> I don't know what is causing your problem. I ran your testcase several > times and never saw a failure, but from your description it seems like > it's the kind of thing that might occur very rarely. >> My only suggestion is that if your true desire is to actually read the > contents of a file into a variable, then the above construct is a fairly > expensive way of doing it. This requires a fork/exec (an operation > which is extremely slow under cygwin) of /bin/cat, whose purpose is only > to read from one fd and write to another. If you can live with a > bash-specific (?) construct, then x=$(< temp) should cause the same > effect but much more efficiently, as the shell itself just reads the > file without invoking any subprocesses. >> Brian >> -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ >> -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/