Feature Group

bash internal / file and stream operations / file reading (1)

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bash

This code reads the contents of file.txt, stores them in a variable, and prints the contents with custom text before and after, using echo with the -e flag to interpret newline characters.

Contents=$(cat file.txt)
# "\n" prints a new line character
# "-e" to interpret the newline escape characters as escape characters
echo -e "START OF FILE\n$Contents\nEND OF FILE"
# => START OF FILE
# => [contents of file.txt]
# => END OF FILE

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