diff --git a/utils/misc/src/main/java/org/onlab/util/Tools.java b/utils/misc/src/main/java/org/onlab/util/Tools.java
index c5162f6..5643098 100644
--- a/utils/misc/src/main/java/org/onlab/util/Tools.java
+++ b/utils/misc/src/main/java/org/onlab/util/Tools.java
@@ -4,6 +4,12 @@
 import com.google.common.primitives.UnsignedLongs;
 import com.google.common.util.concurrent.ThreadFactoryBuilder;
 
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileReader;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
 import java.util.concurrent.ThreadFactory;
 
 public abstract class Tools {
@@ -66,4 +72,24 @@
         }
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Slurps the contents of a file into a list of strings, one per line.
+     *
+     * @param path file path
+     * @return file contents
+     */
+    public static List<String> slurp(File path) {
+        try (BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(path))) {
+            List<String> lines = new ArrayList<>();
+            String line;
+            while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
+                lines.add(line);
+            }
+            return lines;
+
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            return null;
+        }
+    }
+
 }