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Old 05-30-2007
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Works fine with bash.

Code:
$ NAME=one
$ NAME2=two
$ MYVAR="$NAME"_"$NAME2".txt
$ echo $MYVAR
one_two.txt
$

You can try the following syntax:

Code:
$ MYVAR="${NAME}_${NAME2}.txt"
$ echo $MYVAR
one_two.txt
$

Jean-Pierre.