title: I am unable to get desired output while assigning an *
body: <p>I am unable to get desired output while assigning an * to a variable and then concatining it with a string in shell..
  chr function converts int to char
  42 = *</p>
  <pre><code>d=&quot;$(chr 42)&quot;
  m=&quot;&quot;
  c[1]=$d
  m=$m${c[1]}
  echo $m 
  </code></pre>