How to concatenate string variables in Bash

Question

In PHP, strings are concatenated together as follows:

$foo = \"Hello\";
$foo .= \" World\";

Here, $foo becomes \"Hello World\"

Answer 1

Safer way:

a="AAAAAAAAAAAA"
b="BBBBBBBBBBBB"
c="CCCCCCCCCCCC"
d="DD DD"
s="${a}${b}${c}${d}"
echo "$s"
AAAAAAAAAAAABBBBBBBBBBBBCCCCCCCCCCCCDD DD

Strings containing spaces can become part of command, use "$XXX" and "${XXX}" to avoid these errors.

Plus take a look at other answer about +=