can I do command substitutions in vimscript?

In bash, I can do something like this:

foo=`cat bar`

... and then the variable $foo will be the content of the file "bar."

I want to use the cat command to assign a value in my vimrc. I'm sure this
is possible, but I can't figure it out.

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