Please concatinate these 2 strings , bcoz i cant

kittusri9 · #1 (**permalink**) 04-28-2008

Hi All,

Can any one concatinate these two strings
I have string
suppliername=UGEN

i need ouput like
filename=UGEN.txt

i need to add ".txt" to UGEN
please help me

danmero · #2 (**permalink**) 04-28-2008

One example using awk:

Code:

echo 'suppliername=UGEN' | awk -F= '{print "filename="$2".txt"}'

era · #3 (**permalink**) 04-28-2008

Do you mean you have a variable whose contents is "suppliername=UGEN"?

Code:

name="${variable#suppliername=}"
echo $name.txt

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