Bash String Concatenation

How do I join two strings under BASH? I have two strings stored in two different variables (_p=/delta and _u=aqua) and how do I join this and assign it to another variable in bash?

You can use parameter substitution as follows:

 
_p="/delta"
_u="aqua"
### join two $vars ###
out="${_p}${_u}"
echo "${_p}${_u}"
echo "${_p} and ${_u}"
echo "${_p}/${_u}"
echo "Output: $out"

Another example:

#!/bin/bash
_domain="${1:-example.com}"
_root="/chroot"
_path="${_root}/${_domain}"
echo "Host: ${HOSTNAME}@$(date) by $USER"
echo
echo "Setting Apache for ${_domain} @ ${_path}...."
# setupJail "${_domain}" "${_path}"

Sample outouts:

 ./setup.httpd nixcraft.net.in
Host: www34.nixcraft.com@Fri Nov 19 01:44:03 IST 2010 by root
Setting Apache for nixcraft.net.in @ /chroot/nixcraft.net.in...

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1 Anthony Thyssen November 22, 2010 at 11:35 pm: Assigned the variables in a quoted string, you can include or not include spaces, commas or anything else as you like.
a=”part one”
b=”part two”
c=”$a, $b”
echo “$c”
part one, part two
2 droopy4u February 13, 2011 at 2:47 pm: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/bashver3.html – for more info check it out
The += operator is now permitted in in places where previously only the = assignment operator was recognized.
a=1
echo $a # 1
a+=5 # Won’t work under versions of Bash earlier than 3.1.
echo $a # 15
a+=Hello
echo $a # 15Hello

Bash String Concatenation

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