Bill Gradwohl <b...@ycc.com> writes:
> My real world need is to assign temporary file names to named variables.
>
> makeTempFileName=''
> for x in 'TEMPLOG' 'TEMPFILELEFT' 'TEMPFILERIGHT'; do
> makeTemp "${x}" # function that does a lot of processing and
> # sets makeTempFileName equal
> # to /tmp/blahblah.??????
> !x="${makeTempFileName}"
> done
Use eval.
for x in 'TEMPLOG' 'TEMPFILELEFT' 'TEMPFILERIGHT'; do
makeTemp "${x}" # function that does a lot of processing and
# sets makeTempFileName equal
# to /tmp/blahblah.??????
eval $x=\${makeTempFileName}
done
Andreas.
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