How to say this in Bash?

[Matthew Seaman]

Unga wrote:
> --- On Mon, 5/25/09, Jerry <gesbbb at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> From: Jerry <gesbbb at yahoo.com>
>> Subject: Re: How to say this in Bash?
>> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> Date: Monday, May 25, 2009, 11:22 PM
>> On Mon, 25 May 2009 07:36:45 -0700
>> (PDT)
>> Unga <unga888 at yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Here is what happens in bash shell:
>>> $ echo "${X}" > ${Z}
>>> bash: ${Z}: ambiguous redirect
>> Perhaps I am misinterpreting your question; however, if I
>> define both
>> ${X} and ${Z} in a script prior to running your snippet, I
>> do not
>> receive any error message. Could you show more info on how
>> you are
>> attempting to run this snippet?
>>
> 
> $ X='
>> XX1=YES
>> XX2=YES
>> '
> $ echo $X
> XX1=YES XX2=YES
> $
> $ Y='
>> YY1=YES
>> YY2=YES
>> '
> $ echo $Y
> YY1=YES YY2=YES
> $
> $ echo "${X}" > ${Z}
> bash: ${Z}: ambiguous redirect
> 
> I want to append all variables in X and Y into Z so that "echo $Z" should be:
> XX1=YES XX2=YES YY1=YES YY2=YES
> 
> I'm doing everything in command line not using any scripts.
> 

That's not how you set a variable.  Do it like this:

Z="${X} ${Y}"

You're mixing up variable initialisation with output to files.  

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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