indirect shell-vars

[Richard O'Keefe]

In article <627 at targon.UUCP>, ruud at targon.UUCP (Ruud Harmsen) writes:
> I'm looking for a way to reference a variable in the Bourne-shell,
> whose name is given in another variable. ... Perhaps using "eval", but
> also executes the string, which is too much.

	x="foo <baz> ugh"
	y=x
Method 1:
	eval 'z="${'$y'}"'
Method 2:
	cmd="echo \"\${$y}\""
	z=`eval $cmd`
They're not perfect, mind.