On Thursday June 16 2005 21:13, michael wrote:
> For some reason out of my control I need to pass the name of an env var
> to a bash script and then, within said script, determine the value of
> that env var.
>
> [...]
>
> I've tried various combos inside the script like
> echo ${$1}
That was pretty close, and reading the bash manpage actually helps. Read near
the beginning of "Parameter Expansion", there's an explanation of what you
want.
Try:
echo ${!1}
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