[GTALUG] Bash Problem

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Sun, 8 Jan 2017, Mauro Souza via talk wrote:

> Or
> nFname="${base}.mp4"
> 
> Using brackets you can mix variables and text and create something like this:
> newName="${oldname}-bkp-${filedate}.${extension}.old"

The braces are not necessary here. This will work fine:

newName="$oldname-bkp-$filedate.$extension.old"

Braces would be necessary if you were using underscores instead of
hyphens because they can be part of a variable name:

newName="${oldname}_bkp_$filedate.$extension.old"

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Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com>