"Keith Watson" keith.watson@kewill.com
However I went with the $(cat filename) option as it seemed IMO a little more elegant to use the shell's built in features rather than a separate program (but that's just a personal bit of lunacy :-) )
Try $(< filename) and use the shell's built-in features to avoid the gratuitous use of cat, as mentioned in man bash. You'll need xargs if you have too many things for one command line, I think.
Can anyone cut it down more? ;-)
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