On Monday 15 July 2013 16:29:08 Thomas Bendler wrote: > 2013/7/15 Lennart Poettering <mzerqung@xxxxxxxxxxx> > [...] > 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 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel