On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 12:36:22PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote:
> John Kearney wrote:
> >There is also a backdoor approach that I don't really advise.
> >val="${ArrayName}[Index]"
> >echo "${!val}"
> -----
> Don't advise? Any particular reason? or stylistic?
I'd shared this advice ("don't use it"), because I cannot for the
life of me tell whether this is a bug or a feature. As near as I
can tell, it is an unforeseen consequence of the parser implementation,
not documented anywhere. As such, I would not rely on it to continue
working in future Bash releases.
P.S. you meant printf -v, not -V.
