f42 workstation.
I'm trying to prepend a string and multiple spaces to another string. I
can't get it to work. How do I do it? See 3 attempts below. I really
do want multiple spaces between the startstring and the longstring.
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me@road-runner:~$ cat spaces1.bash
#!/bin/bash
#==============================================================================
echo Enter start string:
read startstring
echo startstring = \"${startstring}\".
echo
longstring="This is a long test string"
echo longstring = \"${longstring}\".
$longstring="${startstring} ${longstring}"
echo longstring = \"${longstring}\".
me@road-runner:~$ ./spaces1.bash
Enter start string:
11
startstring = "11".
longstring = "This is a long test string".
./spaces1.bash: line 13: This: command not found
longstring = "This is a long test string".
me@road-runner:~$
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me@road-runner:~$ cat spaces2.bash
#!/bin/bash
#==============================================================================
echo Enter start string:
read startstring
echo startstring = \"${startstring}\".
echo
longstring="This is a long test string"
echo longstring = \"${longstring}\".
spaces3=" "
$longstring="${startstring}${spaces3}${longstring}"
echo longstring = \"${longstring}\".
me@road-runner:~$ ./spaces2.bash
Enter start string:
22
startstring = "22".
longstring = "This is a long test string".
./spaces2.bash: line 14: This: command not found
longstring = "This is a long test string".
me@road-runner:~$
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me@road-runner:~$ cat spaces3.bash
#!/bin/bash
#==============================================================================
echo Enter start string:
read startstring
echo startstring = \"${startstring}\".
echo
longstring="This is a long test string"
echo longstring = \"${longstring}\".
$longstring=${startstring} ${longstring}
echo longstring = \"${longstring}\".
me@road-runner:~$ ./spaces3.bash
Enter start string:
333
startstring = "333".
longstring = "This is a long test string".
./spaces3.bash: line 13: This: command not found
longstring = "This is a long test string".
me@road-runner:~$
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