Question

I’m creating a script that is supposed to create jobs on a HPC (cluster). I have created a function that gets 4 variables and create a string from them:

startJob (){
    if [ $per -lt 10 ]; then
    folder=/storage/users/avityo/prog/0$1.$2$3
    else
    folder=/storage/users/avityo/prog/$1.$2$3
    fi
    echo $folder
}

In the result I get from this, there is a separation by commas

/storage/users/avityo/prog/00,.583,bfd,

How can I remove these commas?

Edit:
Judging from the answers and comment I got, I should have mentioned how I call this function I have realized I’m not calling the function in the right way. I was using this:

let count=0

for per in $(seq 70 -5 0); do
    for seed in {580..583}; do
        for c in {"fs","fd","bfs","bfd"}; do
            let count=$count+1
            startJob $per, $seed, $c, $count
        done
    done
done

removing the commas when calling the function fixed this.

Answer 1

It looks like you are calling your function like this:

startJob 0, 583, bfd, 4thUnusedArgument

You don’t need the commas; the arguments are only separated by whitespace. Try this:

startJob 0 583 bfd 4thUnusedArgument