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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting calling a aliased variable Post 24609 by Optimus_P on Monday 15th of July 2002 04:55:01 PM
Old 07-15-2002
sorry mate just got back from lunch.
OS: SOL 8
Shell: ksh

I have a list of files in a directory.

ie:
test.it
test.me
test.u

it takes this list and strips off the "." so i get testit, testme, testu.

these are actually variables that are sourced in from another file.
(i am sorceing it correctly)

so if you do a echo on those variables you get soemthing like the following:

echo $testit
THIS IS TEST IT

echo $testme
THIS IS TEST ME

echo $testu
THIS IS TEST U

Code:
. ./source-file
for i in `ls`; do
DOH=`echo $i|awk -F. '{ print "$"$1$2 }'`
echo $DOH
done

this only prints out the word $testit/$testme/$testu not the contents of what the variable is supposed to be.

now if by hand i say

doh=$testme
echo $doh
(it will then print the correct output) but useing the awk statement to fill the contents of $doh does not seem to work.
 

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