Adding a string to the end of a date input

Asked Jan 14 '16 at 21:07

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I have a date input I am setting as a directory, but that directory has some text on the end, when I use this code

dirname=`echo "$yr_s$mo_s$da_s'con'"`

This is the error

cp: target ‘/home/tsee/DATA/20160113'con'’ is not a directory

Unsure how to go aroudn it, if I remove the quotations around con it simply joins with the $da_s input and makes it unrecognisable from the code above.

asked Jan 14 '16 at 21:07

twseewx

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Try curly braces like ${mo_s} – fafl Jan 14 '16 at 21:09
@fafl then still use the quotations or remove them from the 'con'? – twseewx Jan 14 '16 at 21:10
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echo "${yr_s}${mo_s}${da_s}con" – fafl Jan 14 '16 at 21:11
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Do you need echo? just do dirname="${yr_s}${mo_s}${da_s}con" – George Houpis Jan 14 '16 at 21:12
@GeorgeHoupis honestly, I am not sure. I was going off an old script. I am relatively new to bash and script writing with it. – twseewx Jan 14 '16 at 21:17
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Curly braces are the best way, but your attempt was pretty close. If you had put your `'con`' after instead of inside the double quotes, it would have worked: ``dirname="$da_s"'con' `` – that other guy Jan 14 '16 at 21:25

Adding a string to the end of a date input

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