echo "$(<"$path")" Instead of cat in BashIt might be more to type, but it is hell-a faster and better on resources to use the long-winded way of reading a file into a buffer variable and then printing it out. The difference here, of course, is that it buffers the whole thing instead out outputting each line as it goes, which intuitively seems slower, but isn’t.
#!/bin/bash
foo=/tmp/foo
echo "$(<"$foo")"
And, by the way, yes, you can have those double-quotes inside the other double-quotes without a problem. Each subshell expansion has its own quote context (something that took me years to realize).
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