On Monday 15 July 2013 16:29:08 Thomas Bendler wrote:
2013/7/15 Lennart Poettering mzerqung@0pointer.de [...] Well, assuming that bash is entirely in memory. And also, note that neither cat, nor cp, nor tail are actually bash builtins and will not work. It's pretty hard (though certainly possible) viewing files with just bash builtins.
echo $(< /var/log/messages)
For what it's worth:
while read -r line; do echo "$line"; done < /var/log/messages
Will do the same and will work line by line instead of putting everything in one *gigantic* single line
Regards,
Marc Deop