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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting namerefs alternative for KSH88 Post 302705941 by nitrobass24 on Tuesday 25th of September 2012 08:29:03 PM
Old 09-25-2012
Here is what i ended up with after doing some research on uses of eval.
Code:
i=1
BIGSTRING="one two three four five six seven eight"

while [[ $i -le 10 ]]; do 
typeset "STRING$i=`echo $BIGSTRING| cut -d' ' -f1-50`"
# typeset -n NEWVAR="STRING$i"
eval "NEWVAR=\$STRING$i"
do_stuff_here_w_NEWVAR
done

Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrutinizer
The standard approach would be to use eval, but that needs to be done carefully, since it could introduce security risks..

What OS and version are you using?
What do you mean security risk?
I am running on RHEL5 (KSH93) & HPUX, SOL5.10 (KSH88)
 

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LORAX(1)						      General Commands Manual							  LORAX(1)

NAME

       lorax - Create installer boot iso

SYNOPSIS

       lorax -p PRODUCT -v VERSION -r RELEASE -s REPOSITORY OUTPUTDIR

DESCRIPTION

       lorax is used to create the installer boot iso.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	      show this help message and exit

       -V     show program's version number and exit

REQUIRED ARGUMENTS
:
       -p STRING, --product=STRING
	      product name

       -v STRING, --version=STRING
	      version identifier

       -r STRING, --release=STRING
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OPTIONAL ARGUMENTS
:
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       -t STRING, --variant=STRING
	      variant name

       -b URL, --bugurl=URL
	      bug reporting URL for the product

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       -c STRING, --config=STRING
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       --proxy=STRING
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