Re: [Help-bash] taking the name of a variable from another variable

[Greg Wooledge]

Before even reading the body, responding only to the subject:

  Use an associative array instead.

On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 10:09:24PM +1000, Robert Durkacz wrote:
> How could I write a shell script that takes two arguments, the first to be
> interpreted as the name of an environment variable and the second to be the
> value of that variable? All the script should do is create an environment
> variable with that value.

A script CAN'T set an environment variable.  Once the script exits, that
variable will be gone.

A script is a separate child process with its own copy of the environment,
and any changes it makes to its environment will not be visible to its
caller.