Bug 14838

Summary: $(<filename) returns empty string
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Need Real Name <harakiri>
Component: bashAssignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
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Description Need Real Name 2000-07-29 15:45:46 UTC 
Getting a string value out of a text file with the "<" character doesn 't 
work, it just returns an empty value. F.i. "echo $(</var/run/atd.pid)" 
gives nada (not even an error), whereas in other distributions, like 
Mandrake, it gives you the contents of the file. As a workaround you can 
use "cat" or something, but it 's bit stupid and slower to call a binary 
to do this. I 've tested this on RH 6.0 and RH 6.2. I 've tried to track 
it down with "strace", but it doesn 't return any value either.
Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-08-03 09:37:04 UTC 
This is a bash 2.x specific feature. It's fixed in rawhide by the upgrade to
bash 2.04.