BASH query

[Matthew Carpenter]

On Wednesday 11 July 2007, dave selby wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I need to set a BASH variable val to the contents of a small line of
> ASCII in a file called 'version',
>
> ie something like ...
>
> val=$(cat version)
>
> except the above does not work !!
>
> Any suggestions

Please define specifically what "does not work" means
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