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From: donlash@uncle.uucp (Donald Lashomb)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: nested loops
Message-ID: <1990Aug12.030137.19989@uncle.uucp>
Date: 12 Aug 90 03:01:37 GMT
References: <4103@herbie.misemi>
Reply-To: donlash@uncle.UUCP (Donald Lashomb)
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In article <4103@herbie.misemi> adley@herbie.misemi ( iccad) writes:
=[...]
=The problem lies in the  $`echo $i` statment
=the `echo $i` preforms as expected and the result is one of this,
=that, or them
=the $ infront of this statment however is taken as a literal $
=and does not return the value of the variable this or that or them
=instead it returns $this or $that or $them.
=[...]

Try using an eval like this:  eval $`echo $i`
eval causes the shell to "double-scan" the line,
thereby picking up and evaluating the ${this/that/whatever}
as a variable.

-Don