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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: recursive variable substitution in csh
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Date: 16 Aug 90 18:38:24 GMT
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In article <9045@cg-atla.agfa.com> jmacdon@cg-atla.UUCP (Jeff MacDonald) writes:
>In the C-shell, how does one evaluate a variable which contains the
>name of a variable in order to get the value of the variable
>contained by the variable that one is evaluating?
>
>set x = 'ABC'
>set y = '$x'
>set z =      # some function of y such that $z == "ABC"

% eval set z = "$y"
% echo $z
% ABC

--tom
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