puzzle

[Bill Suetholz]

I tried this shell script and it performs as requested...

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#!/bin/sh
first_time="first_time"
second_time="second_time"

PREFIX="first second"
SUFFIX="time"

for WORDS in $PREFIX
do

	eval ITERATION=\$${WORDS}_${SUFFIX}

    echo "Iteration is $ITERATION"
done

exit 0
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A few things to note:
   1)  the line with the eval was supposed to have WORDS not PREFIX in it.
   2)  use eval to get shell to evaluate the line twice;
       once for $WORDS and $SUFFIX and once for $first_time or $second_time.


Bill Suetholz (bills at mixcom.UUNET)