[ale] Shell Scripting Question

[Pete Hardie]

Nick Travis wrote:
> I'm working on a script that creates a static webpage that lists all of
> the files in a directory, it's working fine except for one thing.  I'm
> getting a blank space when I create the line of html.
> here's the code:
> 
> 
>># create the html to be added to files.html
>>first="<p><a href=\"/music/"
>>middle="\" >"
>>end="</a></p>"
>>                                                                                
>>echo $first $current_file $middle $current_file $end >> /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/music/files.html
> 
> 
> Here's what it gives me:
> /music/ my-file
> 
> I need to get:
> /music/my-file
> 
> any thoughts?  I'm not very experienced in shell scripting, so there's probably a better way to accomplish the same thing.

try taking out the spaces in the echo command.  If that doesn't work, try 
assigning the vairables to another like 'filename=$first$current'



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