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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers address variable content with csh Post 302298179 by vidyadhar85 on Tuesday 17th of March 2009 12:07:09 AM
Old 03-17-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by sobolev
By using a csh, I want to address a variable content whose name is/matches the content of a given other variable.
i.e.
set name=´sam´
set ${name}_age=´27´

So, by typing: echo ${name}_age
I correctly obtain: sam_age
By typing: echo $sam_age
or echo ${sam_age}
I correctly obtain: 27

But how can I obtain "27" by using ${name} instead of "sam"?
The following instruction does not work!
echo ${`echo ${name}_age`}

Any helps will be accepted!
Thanks a lot!
you better use arrays then
 

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shift(1)                                                           User Commands                                                          shift(1)

NAME
shift - shell built-in function to traverse either a shell's argument list or a list of field-separated words SYNOPSIS
sh shift [n] csh shift [variable] ksh * shift [n] DESCRIPTION
sh The positional parameters from $n+1 ... are renamed $1 ... . If n is not given, it is assumed to be 1. csh The components of argv, or variable, if supplied, are shifted to the left, discarding the first component. It is an error for the variable not to be set or to have a null value. ksh The positional parameters from $n+1 $n+1 ... are renamed $1 ..., default n is 1. The parameter n can be any arithmetic expression that evaluates to a non-negative number less than or equal to $#. On this man page, ksh(1) commands that are preceded by one or two * (asterisks) are treated specially in the following ways: 1. Variable assignment lists preceding the command remain in effect when the command completes. 2. I/O redirections are processed after variable assignments. 3. Errors cause a script that contains them to abort. 4. Words, following a command preceded by ** that are in the format of a variable assignment, are expanded with the same rules as a vari- able assignment. This means that tilde substitution is performed after the = sign and word splitting and file name generation are not performed. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
csh(1), ksh(1), sh(1), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 shift(1)
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