How to echo "some text" and result of function in one line?

Question

I'm starting to learn Bash scripting. And I had a question. The code below is working fine,

Echo "Here is your current directory: "
pwd

but what if I want to have the result of pwd to be written in the same line as explanation string? How to do it? Thanks.

Answer 1

You can use a command substitution

echo "Here is your current directory: $(pwd)"

However you might want to get into the habit of preferring printf over echo

printf 'Here is your current directory: %s\n' "$(pwd)"

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Note: you could just tell echo not to include the terminating newline e.g.

echo -n "Here is your current directory: "
pwd

but it's not recommended - see Why is printf better than echo?