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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Variables Post 302883822 by CarloM on Thursday 16th of January 2014 08:26:07 AM
Old 01-16-2014
What are you actually trying to do? Use the value of N1 as part of the variable name?

If you're on bash, you could do something like:
Code:
$ N1=1
$ a1=18
$ varname="a${N1}"
$ f1=${!varname}
$ echo $f1
18

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