Hello!
On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 08:16:03AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 03:25:31AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > i imagine Chet takes patches
>
> When I sent a patch to make the manual more human-friendly (replacing
> for example ! with $! so that people can search for
> > 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
I do, but the proposed text is misl
On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 03:25:31AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 October 2009 01:39:56 Mikel Ward wrote:
> > It would be more obvious if it had a paragraph directly below
> > ${parameter} saying something like:
> >
> >${!name}
> >Indirect expansion. name is expanded
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 either your documentation is out of date (old bash install) or you jus
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 either your documentation is out of date (old bash install) or you just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.
> -mike
Ah,
On Monday 05 October 2009 23:05:41 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either your documentation is out of date (old bash install) or you just missed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.
-mike
signat
Hi
I came across a script that did
$ VARIABLE1=value1
$ VARIABLE2=value2
$ for VAR in VARIABLE1 VARIABLE2
> do
> echo ${VAR}=${!VAR}
> done
VARIABLE1=value1
VARIABLE2=value2
I was unfamiliar with ${!VAR}. As far as I can tell, it's not documented in
the man page or the info pages.
I assume it
