[ale] Shell Scripting Question

[Nick Travis]

Thanks, I didn't realize you didn't have to separate the variables.  It
works perfectly now.

Nick

On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 13:00, Jonathan Glass wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 11:48, 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.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Nick
> 
> echo $first$current_file$middle$current_file$end >>
> /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/music/files.html


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