On Tuesday 06 October 2009 01:39:56 Mikel Ward wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > Mikel Ward wrote: > > > I was unfamiliar with ${!VAR}. As far as I can tell, it's not > > > documented in the man page or the info pages. > > > > either your documentation is out of date (old bash install) or you just > > missed it. it's under Parameter Expansion. > > Ah, I see it. > > It's in a block of text not using the exclamation point at all. > > It would be more obvious if it had a paragraph directly below > ${parameter} saying something like: > > ${!name} > Indirect expansion. name is expanded to produce the name of a > variable to expand.
i imagine Chet takes patches -mike
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