insomiac
insomiac

Reputation: 5664

Executing multiple commands on command line linux

I want to run multiple commands on command line in linux. Here's the example:

abc.txt: hello

$ test 'cat abc.txt'

Here test is a command which runs agains the value of abc.txt and abc.txt is the file which have some value.

How can i print the value from the file and run the test command ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 102

Answers (1)

John1024
John1024

Reputation: 113834

This runs cat abc.txt, placing the contents of that file the command line where they are used as arguments to the command test:

test "$(cat abc.txt)"

Upvotes: 1

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