Building Variable Names in Bourne Shell

Doug Gwyn gwyn at brl-smoke.ARPA
Fri Mar 25 06:10:48 AEST 1988


In article <12565 at brl-adm.ARPA> kevinc at bearcat.lim.tek.com (Kevin Cosgrove 627-5212) writes:
>Anyone know how to build *accessible* variable names on the fly in Bourne
>shell?

Try using the "exec" built-in; it's a lot simpler and more efficient
than most of the other proposals.



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