BASH: How to add text in the same line after command

Question

I have to print number of folders in my directory, so i use ls -l $1| grep "^d" | wc -lafter that, I would liked to add a text in the same line. any ideas?

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If you don’t want to use a variable to hold the output you can use echo and put your command in $( ) on that echo line.

echo $(ls -l $1| grep "^d" | wc -l ) more text to follow here

Accepted Answer

If you don’t want to use a variable to hold the output you can use echo and put your command in $( ) on that echo line.echo $(ls -l $1| grep "^d" | wc -l ) more text to follow here

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