On 6/24/25 11:14 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
On 6/24/25 11:06 PM, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote:
On 24 Jun 2025 at 22:23, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
Date sent: Tue, 24 Jun 2025 22:23:49 -0700
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Subject: Bash: how do I read a file into a variable and keep
the line feeds?
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From: ToddAndMargo via users
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Hi All,
In my bash script, I want to load a file into a
variable and keep the line feeds.
x=$(cat filename)
remove all the line feeds.
I want $x to be exactly the same as filename.
This is where I would be using this:
echo "$x" | mailx -s "$Subject" $Cmd $To
Why not use the -q option?
-q file, --quote-file=..
(Send mode) Initialize the message body with the
contents of file, which may be standard input ‘-’ only in
non-interactive context. Also see -M, -m, -t.
The "Body" is being passed as a variable to a mailing
subroutine:
Mail () {
local Subject=$1
local Body=$2
I added a test of the $Body for starts with "file:"
That doesn't stop you from using that option. If the test matches, then
use the option instead of doing "cat".
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