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Old 10-28-2010
assignment to variable from eval command

Hi Gurus,

I am having 2 parameters as below

parm1=value1
parm2=parm1

I want to evaluate parm1 value using eval echo \$$parm2 and later i want to assign this value to other variable which i will be using in if statement like :

if [[ $var=='value1 ]]; then
do this.......
fi

could you please suggest some way as I am not able to achieve this.
 

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