Re: is this coherent?

[Andreas Schwab]

Antonio Macchi <antonio_mac...@alice.it> writes:

> $ unset b
>
> $ echo ${!b-a}
> a

Indirection only looks at the PARAMETER part (here: b) of the
substitution.  Since b is not set there nothing to indirect through.

Andreas.

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