Undersired echo truncate in sh Linux

I want to send two variables as input to another command in shell script. I have tried many methods to send the two variables but I am getting unexpected problems with echo command.

        #!/bin/sh
        echo $DATE_NOW1
        Feb 17 2016
        echo $HOURS1
        13:06:47
        echo "$DATE_NOW1 $HOURS1"

        output : 13:06:4716

the above string gives unexpected truncated output.i am getting the Variables after reading from a file.(ex : HOURS1=cat time_now |cut -d '.' -f 1 )

I have tried other methods like foo=”$date_now $hours” and foo “${date_now}${hours}” but still no use.

Can anyone point me where am I getting it wrong ?

Answer

Your variable DATE_NOW1 is terminated by a r character. As echo always finishes the display by a n, echo $DATE_NOW1 works well (actually displays Feb 17 2016rn). But when you concatenate, echo displays this string : Feb 17 2016r13:06:47rn

Try to remove the tailing r, or add a n at the end of DATE_NOW1