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Old 06-14-2012
Problem in Concatination of string in bash scripts containing back slashes.
My script is as follows:

Code:
#!/bin/bash
STR1="test"
echo $STR1
STR2="/bldtmp/"$STR1
echo $STR2
STR3=$STR2'/tmp'
echo $STR3

output i am geting
----------------
Code:
test
/bldtmp/test
/tmptmp/test

but my need is:
------------------
Code:
test
/bldtmp/test
/bldtmp/test/tmp

please help me in this?
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 06-14-2012 at 10:14 AM.. Reason: code tags
# 2  
Old 06-14-2012
Your script file is in DOS format. Try converting it to Unix format like this:
Code:
tr -d '\r' < script > newscript

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 06-15-2012 at 04:26 AM..
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