Re: Evaluating a nexted variable

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From: Conor P. Cahill
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 1990 04:48

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In article <MCNEILD.90Nov10134417@mcneild.Software.Mitel.COM> mcneild@mcneild.Software.Mitel.COM (Doug McNeil) writes:
>$eval z="$`echo $c`"

eval z=\$$c

will do what you want.

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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
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Subject: Re: Evaluating a nexted variable
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Date: 11 Nov 90 04:48:03 GMT
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