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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Partial variable substitution in script Post 302930301 by anil510 on Friday 2nd of January 2015 04:09:18 AM
Old 01-02-2015
Partial variable substitution in script
I have a script.

Code:
filecreatenew ()  {
        touch /usr/src/$1_newfile.txt
        var=$1
        echo $var
        touch /usr/src/$var_newfile_with_var.txt
}

filecreatenew myfile

Its creating file /usr/src/myfile_newfile.txt as the variable $1 is correctly used. When $ is assigned to $var, the variable in $var is echoed fine, but the file is not getting created. How can I get the file myfile_newfile_with_var.txt correctly with the above script. ie the variable passed from $1 to $var should work in the line "touch /usr/src/$var_newfile_with_var.txt"
 

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