Bash: Read a file into a variable

22 December 2014  in Bash  tagged bash / file / GNU/Linux / read / redirect / variable by Tux

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value=$(<config.txt)

value is the variable to which you want to read the file into.

Replace config.txt with the file you want to be read.

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