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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting echo the NAME of the variable Post 302630151 by neutronscott on Wednesday 25th of April 2012 12:46:32 PM
Old 04-25-2012
Use two arrays, or associative arrays (bash v4), or write them out again (you already did in the loop), or printf like so:

Code:
[mute@geek ~]$ varA=AAA1 varB=BBB2 varC=CCC3
[mute@geek ~]$ printf 'the current name is %s, the value is %s\n' varA "$varA" varB "$varB" varC "$varC"
the current name is varA, the value is AAA1
the current name is varB, the value is BBB2
the current name is varC, the value is CCC3

---------- Post updated at 12:46 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:45 PM ----------

or bash's indirection:

Code:
$ for var in varA varB varC; do echo "$var is ${!var}"; done
varA is AAA1
varB is BBB2
varC is CCC3

 

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