Sorry to carry on a conversation with myself, but I said... On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
[...] > In bash, you can do: > > $ var=value > $ ref=var > $ echo ${!ref} > value > > but unfortunately, you cannot do > > $ ${!ref}=anothervalue and after experimenting further, I find that the effect can be obtained with: $ eval $ref=other $ echo $var other This is still more like a pointer in C than a reference in C++. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...2k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech