Re: Question about expansion: redirection(<) vs command(cat)

Bart,

On Tue, Jan 13, 2026 at 3:19 PM Bart Schaefer <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> The issue here is that the token "$(<" is a special case of "$(" and
> not a special case of "<" redirection.  Docs under "Command
> Substitution":
>
>   The substitution '$(cat FOO)' may be replaced by the faster '$(<FOO)'.
>   In this case FOO undergoes single word shell expansions (_parameter
>   expansion_, _command substitution_ and _arithmetic expansion_), but not
>   filename generation.  No subshell is created.
>
> Note "but not filename generation".
>

Appreciate the information.  Not what I expected, but it is what it is. Was
able to
use an alternate method in order to use redirection. I should probably
reread all
of the man pages and hopefully absorb what I missed before.

Thank you.

Regards,

JIm