Concatenate string variables in Bash
David Y.
—The Problem
How can I concatenate string variables in Bash?
The Solution
You can use the substitution syntax (${}) as follows:
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h="Hello" w="world" hw="${h} ${w}" echo $hw # will output "Hello world"
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