On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 01:58:35PM -0800, Corey Hickey wrote: > This isn't exactly a debian-specific question, but I'm not sure where > else to turn. > > I'm writing a bash script wherein I have a list of variables of which I > want to return the values. A script representative of what I am trying > to do would be like this: > > > #!/bin/bash > > FOO=bar > BLAH=blarg > > for var in FOO BLAH ; do > echo $var = $"$var" #this part is messed up > done
Try this, which I believe to be the best way: echo '$var = ' `eval 'echo "$foo"'` Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]