i-bash/examples/scripts.noah/shcat.bash
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# shcat.bash
# Author: Noah Friedman <friedman@prep.ai.mit.edu>
# Created: 1992-07-17
# Last modified: 1993-09-29
# Public domain
# Conversion to bash v2 syntax done by Chet Ramey
# Commentary:
# Code:
#:docstring shcat:
# Usage: shcat {file1} {file2} {...}
#
# Like `cat', only this is all inline bash.
#:end docstring:
###;;;autoload
function shcat ()
{
local IFS=""
local line
local file
local exitstat=0
if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
while read -r line; do
echo "${line}"
done
return 0
else
for file in "$@" ; do
if [ -r "${file}" ]; then
while read -r line; do
echo "${line}"
done < "${file}"
else
# This will cause the error to be printed on stderr
< "${file}"
exitstat=1
fi
done
return ${exitstat}
fi
}
provide shcat
# shcat.bash ends here