bash and ksh were fine with this, but dash 0.5.6 wasn't so...
commit 645102c94cf8fddf1251940b2af884871befb388
Author: Pádraig Brady <[email protected]>
Date: Sat Dec 7 15:36:33 2013 +0000
tests: avoid problematic $(< file) shell construct
* tests/cp/link-deref.sh: This was seen to cause an issue
with dash v0.5.6 at least, so change to a simpler expression.
diff --git a/tests/cp/link-deref.sh b/tests/cp/link-deref.sh
index 91a6c5d..c12dfc8 100755
--- a/tests/cp/link-deref.sh
+++ b/tests/cp/link-deref.sh
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ for src in dirlink filelink danglink; do
"$result" \
"$ino_dst" \
"$typ_dst" \
- "$(< err)" \
+ "$(cat err)" \
> out
# What was expected?
