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I can’t figure out how to make the following work without using cat. I’m not worried about the forked process or anything, it just unsettles me:
$ printf "<format specification string>" $(cat source-file.txt)
Is there a better way?
Yes. You can accomplish the same thing, without creating a new process for
cat, with: