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Old 05-20-2008
appending strings to variable

is it possible?

as i keep reading a file, i want one particular variable to keep storing the line that i've read so far
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Old 05-20-2008
Code:
var=${var}morestuff

Maybe you even want a newline between the old value and morestuff?

Code:
var=${var}'
'morestuff

That looks weird but it works.
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