09-02-2008
dynamic variables
I am new to unix and the following problem is bugging me.
var1="hello1"
var2="hello2"
var3="hello3"
counter=1
while [ $counter -le 3]
do
echo $var$counter
done
the idea here is to display the value of "var" based on the counter.
I am using the korn shell. I used array here but the problem is that I am executing the script from another script and so the prompt comes as "-A bad option"
Can the above problem be done in another way i.e without using arrays.
Can eval be useful here? please help.
code snippet for this would be very helpful
TIA
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escape(1) Mail Avenger 0.8.3 escape(1)
NAME
escape - escape shell special characters in a string
SYNOPSIS
escape string
DESCRIPTION
escape prepends a "" character to all shell special characters in string, making it safe to compose a shell command with the result.
EXAMPLES
The following is a contrived example showing how one can unintentionally end up executing the contents of a string:
$ var='; echo gotcha!'
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hi
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$ eval echo hi `escape "$var"`
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avenger(1),
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