in reply to Reading a big file and passing to output

I had the idea of issuing an exec "cat ", "$folder/$file" but couldn't cause they are using the script on an NT server.

Not that I really would advocate this type of approach, but don't let NT's silly idiomatic commands get in your way. Most UNIX commands actually are in NT, just under stupid, stupid names.

You could do "type ", "$folder/$file" and achieve the same effect as using cat.

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