# shcat.bash # Author: Noah Friedman # 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