On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 21:25 +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote:
> 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}
>
Fantastic! I skim read the man page too quick then (and didn't think of
searching for 'indirect')
live'n'learn
thanks!
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Michael Bane
Atmospheric Physics Group
University of Manchester
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