How to say this in Bash?

[Unga]

--- On Tue, 5/26/09, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:

> From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: How to say this in Bash?
> To: "Unga" <unga888 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Date: Tuesday, May 26, 2009, 1:20 AM
> 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.  

Ok, this solves the issue. Thanks all for helping me in this regard.

Best regards
Unga