Bill Gradwohl wrote:
> BTW - I ran thru the archives via a search for 'indirection' and for the
> longest time was confused by references to addr...@hidden scattered
> throughout the code examples. Here's an example:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2002-11/msg00085.html
>
> I did a ma
Bill Gradwohl writes:
> I tried it with and without and it doesn't appear to make a difference.
Try adding spaces or other special characters to the value of
$makeTempFileName. The variable should be expanded during the rescan
done by eval, not before.
Andreas.
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Andreas Schwab, sch...@linu
On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 19:54 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Use eval.
>
>eval $x=\${makeTempFileName}
After you mentioned it, I remembered reading about eval a long time ago
and couldn't understand what it was good for. Now I know. Thank You.
Why the backslash before the $ ?
I tried it with
Bill Gradwohl writes:
> My real world need is to assign temporary file names to named variables.
>
> makeTempFileName=''
> for x in 'TEMPLOG' 'TEMPFILELEFT' 'TEMPFILERIGHT'; do
>makeTemp "${x}" # function that does a lot of processing and
> # sets makeTempFileName equal
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:49:43AM -0600, Bill Gradwohl wrote:
> This is a trivial example, but gives you the idea.
> for x in 'VAR_A' 'VAR_B' 'VAR_C'; do
># What I'd like to say is
>!x="hello"
> done
In bash 4, you can use associative arrays, which gives you what you
really want.
Apart
