reading file into kornshell

[TracyPyne]

Hi,

in shell script you can use
var=`cat text.txt`
to set var to contain the value of the text file (which in this case is a single word).

How do you do this in Korn shell?

Thanks

Tracy

 

[grega]

The same way?

Greg.

 

[MikeLacey]

backticks works in ksh and the posix shell, (also called sh, just to confuse you)

a ksh specific way of doing that would be

var=$(cat text.txt)

this is nice because it nests so easily, like this

file=$(basename $(whence cat)) Mike
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