Thanks, I wasn't aware that positional parameters greater than nine have to
be enclosed in brackets.
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:17 PM, DJ Mills <danielmil...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:41 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Rafael,
>>
>> Rafael Fernandez wrote:
>>
>> > set -- a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
>> > i=1
>> > eval echo '$'$i # outputs an expected 'a'
>> > i=10
>> > eval echo '$'$i # outputs 'a0'; expected 'j'
>> > i=11
>> > eval echo '$'$i # outputs 'b1'; expected 'k'
>>
>> Have you tried
>>
>> eval "echo \${$i}"
>>
>> ?
>>
>> That has nothing to do with eval. The only way to explicitly expand a
> positional
> parameter > 9 is to use braces, echo "${10}"
>
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