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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Indirect variables in Bash Post 302769112 by Scrutinizer on Monday 11th of February 2013 08:32:40 AM
Old 02-11-2013
Because if $path is obtained from user input or an input file, or otherwise not under your control someone could execute code with the permissions of the person executing the script.

If you are using bash 4 or you could switch to ksh93 then an alternative might be associative arrays:

Code:
leg=([AB]=50 [CD]=40)
echo "${leg[AB]}"

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