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Old 07-01-2009
jim mcnamara jim mcnamara is offline Forum Staff  
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I think you mean to 'get the value of' a variable or maybe dereference it.

Do you mean you want to create a file using a variable as a filename?

Code:

SourceFilePath=/db1/Src/test 
var=${SourceFilePath}/file.txt
> $var     # this creates an empty file named /db1/Src/test/file.txt