Re: How to get value of environment variable in variable name?

avoncampe_at_gmail.com
Date: 08/31/05 

Date: 31 Aug 2005 08:47:14 -0700

Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:

> In any Bourne-type shell:
>
> eval "value=\$$var"

Thanks! That works like a charm. The critical piece I was missing
was the backslash in front of the first $. I knew the answer would
include an eval, but the various combinations I tried didn't work.

Thanks again,
Alfred

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