Raspberry Pi OS • Re: Reading the Content of a File to a Variable

export MachineID=$(<DeviceName.txt)

That is a bash-ism though. Not faster enough to be worth getting into the habit of, if you also need to write portable scripts ever. (Which in Debian-based distros, you likely do.)

Assuming the file is only one line, we have also:

Statistics: Posted by jojopi — Fri Aug 30, 2024 4:52 pm

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