string concatenation in bash

How do you join two strings. I have two strings in 2 differnent vars. How can I join this and assign it to another var in bash?

sed or awk?

Can't help with any code though ;)

Maybe:

Code:

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man awk

-v var=value  assigns value to program variable var.

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Concatenation is easy and intuitive in bash:

$ a=hip
$ b=hop
$ ab=$a$b
$ echo $ab
hiphop

Check out the link in my sig for a great bash reference.

drChuck

Thanks a lot. I did try that (in a different sort of way) I used
$c= $a $b
because I needed a space in between. Now I use
$c= $a$space$b.

$a=cow
$b=tipping
$complete=$a" are not for "$b
echo $complete
cows are not for tipping

hlrguy

Quote:

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Originally Posted by hlrguy

$a=cow
$b=tipping
$complete=$a" are not for "$b
echo $complete
cows are not for tipping

hlrguy

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Your example magically makes "cow" plural? ;-p