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From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Building Variable Names in Bourne Shell
Message-ID: <Mar.22.17.36.19.1988.6584@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Date: 22 Mar 88 22:36:22 GMT
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Try eval...

onestring="A"			# set the values of arbitrary strings
twostring="B"
threestring="C"
for string in one two three	# loop thru string sets
do
   var="${string}string"	# var contains the name of the string
				# I wish to get access to

     echo \$$var=`eval echo \\$$var`


done