Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 18:20:58 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Unga <unga888@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to say this in Bash? Message-ID: <4A1AD37A.5030003@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <904563.63141.qm@web57001.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
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Unga wrote:
> --- On Mon, 5/25/09, Jerry <gesbbb@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Jerry <gesbbb@yahoo.com>
>> Subject: Re: How to say this in Bash?
>> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>> Date: Monday, May 25, 2009, 11:22 PM
>> On Mon, 25 May 2009 07:36:45 -0700
>> (PDT)
>> Unga <unga888@yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Here is what happens in bash shell:
>>> $ echo "${X}" > ${Z}
>>> bash: ${Z}: ambiguous redirect
>> Perhaps I am misinterpreting your question; however, if I
>> define both
>> ${X} and ${Z} in a script prior to running your snippet, I
>> do not
>> receive any error message. Could you show more info on how
>> you are
>> attempting to run this snippet?
>>
>
> $ X='
>> XX1=YES
>> XX2=YES
>> '
> $ echo $X
> XX1=YES XX2=YES
> $
> $ Y='
>> YY1=YES
>> YY2=YES
>> '
> $ echo $Y
> YY1=YES YY2=YES
> $
> $ echo "${X}" > ${Z}
> bash: ${Z}: ambiguous redirect
>
> I want to append all variables in X and Y into Z so that "echo $Z" should be:
> XX1=YES XX2=YES YY1=YES YY2=YES
>
> I'm doing everything in command line not using any scripts.
>
That's not how you set a variable. Do it like this:
Z="${X} ${Y}"
You're mixing up variable initialisation with output to files.
Cheers,
Matthew
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