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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Preserving values with for loop for later use Post 302740101 by Corona688 on Wednesday 5th of December 2012 02:00:13 PM
Old 12-05-2012
That would be ugly, glitch-prone, and a gaping security hole(never use eval), which is why I suggested the alternative.

This could work, if your variables don't have more than one line in them.

Code:
printf "%s\n" "$var1" "$var2" "$var3" > save

for X in var1 var2 var3
do
        read $X
done < save

rm -f save

But again, the best way would be to avoid the problem completely by using a subshell -- that's one reason they exist. Or just don't overwrite those variables in the first place.
 

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