It seems that indirect expansion doesn't work with arrays:
$ a=(x y z) $ b=a $ echo "${!b[0]} ${!b[1]} ${!b[2]}" x Is that intended? The documentation isn't explicit about it.IMHO it would be very desirable to have a indirect expansion facility for arrays. Otherwise there is only a choice between passing all elements to a function, which is time-consuming, or using eval, which is cumbersome and error-prone.
Regards, Bernd -- Bernd Eggink http://sudrala.de