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Re: Difference between `CAT file` and VAR=|cat file ?

1997-10-14 12:48:05
On 14 Oct 1997 19:46:07 +0300,
<jari(_dot_)aalto(_at_)poboxes(_dot_)com> wrote:
             var = `cat file`
             :0 hwic
             var=| cat file
     If and how these two are different? Is the var=| depreciated now?

Why do you think that? var=| is actually often preferrable because in
simple cases such as this, it will not spawn a shell (Procmail will
just exec cat directly. See the documentation for SHELLMETAS).

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