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I have a related question to my original post:

Suppose in the terminal window I entered the following;

doc_path="/Users/joeblogs/My Files/Documents/"

file3_L="$doc_path/txt/Testfile.txt"

echo $file3_L

which outputs:

/Users/joeblogs/My Files/Documents/txt/Testfile.txt

and then I enter;

n=3

left="file${n}_L"

echo $left

which outputs:

file3_L

Issue:

I can't seem to get the same output as I got from using echo $file3_L by instead using the value of $left - is there something I am missing in terms of the bash syntax / brace expansion?

What I would like to get (by using $left in some way) is:

/Users/joeblogs/My Files/Documents/txt/Testfile.txt

This will help with the my original goal(s).

Any help/advice is much appreciated.

Thanks.

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