Re: String concatenation and if-fi constructs in bash fail

2006-11-09 Thread Owen Rees
--On Thursday, November 09, 2006 12:32:15 +0100 Borislav Tomov wrote: Example results: one +ne +two The number 2: two + twos one Example result: for line XX which is the last +1 line of the script, the following message is displayed script_path: line XX: syntax error: unexpe

String concatenation and if-fi constructs in bash fail

2006-11-09 Thread Borislav Tomov
I am observing that string concatenation in bash 3.2.3(5), as well as in 3.1.17 (not exactly sure, the one that comes with the distribution), overwrites the first string variable during concatenation: Example code: string1="one" string2="two" echo $string1 echo "$string1+" echo "$string1+$stri