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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Copyright 2016 The Bazel Authors. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http:#www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+set -eu
+
+# This allows the script to be both a binary and a library script. If our binary has defined
+# RUNFILES then we use it, otherwise we look for our own runfiles.
+RUNFILES=${RUNFILES:-$0.runfiles}
+
+function showfile {
+  cat "${RUNFILES}/examples/shell/data/file.txt"
+}
+