topic Re: variable substution in Operating System - HP-UX

variable substution

claudio testa — Mon, 29 Nov 2004 08:25:28 GMT

I have set MYTEST="1 2 3" and also i have set A="MY" and B="TEST".
If i do:
1) echo ${MYTEST} the output is corretc "1 2 3"
2) echo $A$B the output is "MYTEST" but i wolud like print "1 2 3", how to do?

Thanks in advance and sorry for my poor english.

Re: variable substution

Mark Greene_1 — Mon, 29 Nov 2004 08:38:45 GMT

You cannot do indirect variable reference like that; the closest thing available in either bourne or korn shell scrips is an array.

mark

Re: variable substution

harry d brown jr — Mon, 29 Nov 2004 08:42:00 GMT

[root@vpart1 /tmp]# eval echo \$${A}${B}
1 2 3
[root@vpart1 /tmp]#

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