Re: can I do command substitutions in vimscript?

I'm not 100% sure what you're trying to accomplish, but if you want to
actually invoke cat to dump the contents of a file "bar" into a Vim
variable "foo", you can do:

let foo = system('cat bar')

where the string passed to system() can be any arbitrary shell command.

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