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Re: Attempting to work with a basic variable name and it's value

Ed Morton

2007-05-30, 1:25 pm

Bill Marcum wrote:
> On 30 May 2007 07:48:44 -0700, comatt1@inbox.com
> <comatt1@inbox.com> wrote:
>
>
> eval is your friend, or if your shell supports arrays you can use an
> array instead.
> eval echo \$$i > $SCAN/${i}.out
>
>

I'd have gone the other way with "for i in $v1 $v2 $v3; do".

Ed.