Re: Setting a value to an indirectly named variable

[Paul Jarc]

jan@gingerall.cz (Jan Janousek) wrote:
> I expected that the third line of the script ($A=xxx) should set the
> value xxx to the variable X (the same way as the fifth line (export -n
> $A=xxx)) but it resulted into the error "./a: X=xxx: command not
> found".

Right.  eval "$A=xxx" will do what you want.  Variable names in
assignment statements are not subject to variable expansion.


paul