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Date:      Tue, 14 Mar 2000 14:46:00 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        keith@mail.telestream.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: silly off topic scripting question
Message-ID:  <20000314144600.A97517@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10003141221470.30221-100000@mail.telestream.com>; from "keith@mail.telestream.com" on Tue Mar 14 12:26:28 GMT 2000
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.10003141221470.30221-100000@mail.telestream.com>

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In the last episode (Mar 14), keith@mail.telestream.com said:
> How can one append a variable in BASH? Like run a loop and have the
> results of the loop append a variable instead of just resetting the
> variable with the new result?
> I have the bash book and don't seem to see this discussed anywhere. 

$ newdata=hello
$ var=test
$ var=$var$newdata
$ echo $var

testhello
$

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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