string concatenation in bash

[Architect]

How do you join two strings. I have two strings in 2 differnent vars. How can I join this and assign it to another var in bash?

[deathadder]

sed or awk?

Can't help with any code though

Maybe:

man awk

-v var=value   assigns value to program variable var.

[DrChuck]

Concatenation is easy and intuitive in bash:

$ a=hip
$ b=hop
$ ab=$a$b
$ echo $ab
hiphop

Check out the link in my sig for a great bash reference.

drChuck

[Architect]

Thanks a lot. I did try that (in a different sort of way) I used
$c= $a $b
because I needed a space in between. Now I use
$c= $a$space$b.

[hlrguy]

$a=cow
$b=tipping
$complete=$a" are not for "$b
echo $complete
cows are not for tipping

hlrguy