Language question -- file = variable ?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 03:02:23PM -0400, Myles Braithwaite wrote:
>  The closest thing I could think of would be PowerShell:
> 
> $a = (get-content counter.txt)
> $a + 1 | out-file -encoding ASCII counter.txt
> 
> Pash (which is a extremely unfortunate name) is a reimplementation of PowerShell for all OS that support Mono.

bash (but not likely posix shell):

x=`cat counter.txt`
echo $((++x)) > counter.txt

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