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Re: Shell script - is this expected behaviour?

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Tim McDaniel <tmcd@panix.com> wrote:
> I don't have the time to experiment at the moment...

Likewise, but it seems likely some existing utilities like "line" or
"head -n1" might do the job. E.g.

foo=$(line < file)
foo=$(head -n1 file)

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