Re: Does zsh have a hereis to variable???

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

zzapper wrote:
> Hi
> I would like to load  a longish Perl Script into a variable without having to
>  worry about what
> quotes might appear in the script, I know zsh has hereis to a file, but to a 
> variable ???

I think you want

var="$(<file)"

which puts the contents of file into the variable var without any
substitutions or splitting or joining on the contents.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
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