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From: pfalstad@spot.Princeton.EDU (Paul John Falstad)
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Subject: Re: Evaluating a nexted variable
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Date: 11 Nov 90 01:34:34 GMT
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In article <MCNEILD.90Nov10134417@mcneild.Software.Mitel.COM> mcneild@mcneild.Software.Mitel.COM (Doug McNeil) writes:
>$ a=b
>$ c=a
>Determing the value of "a" given "c".
>I came up with:
>$ eval z="$`echo $c`"
>$ echo $z

Or:

$ eval z=\$$c
$ echo $z

or:

$ eval echo \$$c


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