Hello, can you show me a simple way to read a file into a shell/env
variable?

 What I intended to do is read the .signature file into MAILX_TAIL
variable, so that I can use the same signature in elm and Mail (I'm
using solaris 2.5). My error history (in csh):

 % set x=`cat .signature`   # no, shell breaks it into words
 % set x="`cat .signature`" # no, it's broken into lines

 % set dollar='$'
 % set x="`cat .signature | sed -e 's/$dollar/\\/'`"

   (I was trying to replace the newline with backslash-newline. nope,
    didn't work as the leading spaces are thrown out)

 It was easy in sh:

 $ IFS=''
 $ set `cat .signature`
 $ MAILX_TAIL=$1

 Then how can I wrap around the shell command so that I have the right
value of MAILX_TAIL in csh ?

 Thanks in advance,

                      --WG.

chsh /bin/ksh
or use this script:

#!/bin/sh
IFS1="$IFS"
IFS=''
MAILX_TAIL=`cat .signature`
IFS="$IFS1"
mailx

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Bill Marcum    bmarcum at iglou dot com
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