BASH query

[Jonathan Hirschman]

Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 21:23 +0100, dave selby wrote:
>   
>> val=$(cat version)
>>
>> except the above does not work !!
>>
>>
>>     
> It does for me:
>
> user at host: ~ $ cat version 
> yup
> user at host: ~ $ val=$(cat version)
> user at host: ~ $ echo $val
> yup
> user at host: ~ $ 
>   
And for me:

jonathan at vm_1001:~$ echo "Version 666" > version.txt
jonathan at vm_1001:~$ cat version.txt
Version 666
jonathan at vm_1001:~$ val=$(cat version.txt)
jonathan at vm_1001:~$ echo $val
Version 666


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