[ale] Shell Scripting Question

[Byron A Jeff]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 01:50:12PM -0500, Nick Travis wrote:
> Thanks, I didn't realize you didn't have to separate the variables.  It
> works perfectly now.

And if you are in a situation where you need to run a variable up against
some text that could be considered a variable name, then you can use braces
to separate the name. For example:

junk=testme
echo $junk123  # You want testme123 but you get nothing...

However

junk=testme
echo ${junk}123  # You want testme123 and you get testme123

BAJ

> 
> Nick
> 
> On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 13:00, Jonathan Glass wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 11:48, Nick Travis wrote:
> > > I'm working on a script that creates a static webpage that lists all of
> > > the files in a directory, it's working fine except for one thing.  I'm
> > > getting a blank space when I create the line of html.
> > > here's the code:
> > > 
> > > > # create the html to be added to files.html
> > > > first="<p><a href=\"/music/"
> > > > middle="\" >"
> > > > end="</a></p>"
> > > >                                                                                 
> > > > echo $first $current_file $middle $current_file $end >> /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/music/files.html
> > > 
> > > Here's what it gives me:
> > > /music/ my-file
> > > 
> > > I need to get:
> > > /music/my-file
> > > 
> > > any thoughts?  I'm not very experienced in shell scripting, so there's probably a better way to accomplish the same thing.
> > > 
> > > Thanks
> > > Nick
> > 
> > echo $first$current_file$middle$current_file$end >>
> > /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/music/files.html
> 
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