How to concatenate string variables in Bash

foo="Hello"
foo="${foo} World"
echo "${foo}"
> Hello World

In general to concatenate two variables you can just write them one after another:

a='Hello'
b='World'
c="${a} ${b}"
echo "${c}"
> Hello World

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