Hi

I am implementing array sort of functionality in shell script. I am using a variable1 , variable2 ...... to store temporary values. Now a counter is keeping track of it. For example count=8, variable8="mul * prod". When I try to echo $(variable$count), it replaces * by list of files in current directory.

Like :
set -x
z=9
variable9="kjhgfj * kdufhkjd"
Result=`eval echo '$'variable$z`

Is their any way by which I can echo value for special case like these where variable has a '*' in it ?


Regards,
Hanumanth

Hi ... thanks for solution ... can you pls let me know wt is the meaning of
set -f

Care to look at the man page of sh ? Search for set under BASH BUILTIN COMMANDS