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From: mcneild@mcneild.Software.Mitel.COM (Doug McNeil)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Evaluating a nexted variable
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Date: 10 Nov 90 18:44:17 GMT
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Hello,

A friend needed to get the value of a variable which was contained in
a variable:

$a=b
$c=a

Determing the value of "a" given "c".

I came up with:

$eval z="$`echo $c`"
$echo $z

Not being a shell guru, I expect there are lots of better ways to do
this. Any comments?

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