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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Adding string variable dynamically in for loop Post 302431225 by msubash26 on Monday 21st of June 2010 07:37:42 AM
Old 06-21-2010
Adding string variable dynamically in for loop
Hi,

I need to generate the text name dynamically in for loop,

ex,

Code:
VAR_COPY_FILE1= file path 1
VAR_COPY_FILE2= file path 2
VAR_COPY_FILE3= file path 3
 
for i in 1 2 3 
do

 if [ ${"VAR_COPY_FILE"+$i} != "XXX" ]
   then
 
"do some process here"
 
fi
done

But in for loop if statement I cant create the variable to check, am getting bad substitution error.

Can anyone please help to resolve this?

Regards
Subash
Last edited by Scott; 06-21-2010 at 08:43 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
 

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NAME

       bup-margin - figure out your deduplication safety margin

SYNOPSIS

       bup margin [options...]

DESCRIPTION

       bup margin  iterates  through  all  objects  in	your  bup repository, calculating the largest number of prefix bits shared between any two
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       For example, one system that was tested had a collection of 11 million objects (70 GB), and bup margin returned 45.  That  means  a  46-bit
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