Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 16:39:07 -0500 From: Jim C <jconner@enterit.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>, keith@mail.telestream.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: silly off topic scripting question Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.20000314163021.00aa4110@mail.enterit.com> In-Reply-To: <20000314144600.A97517@dan.emsphone.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10003141221470.30221-100000@mail.telestream.com> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10003141221470.30221-100000@mail.telestream.com>
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At 14.46 14.03.00 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote:
>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 $var
>
>testhello
>$
Yup...so:
for loop in 1 2 3 4
do
newVar=$((loop + 1))
loop="$loop$newVar"
echo $loop
done
>--
> Dan Nelson
> dnelson@emsphone.com
>
>
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