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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to extract the individual element of array where array is assigned to another variable? Post 303045834 by RudiC on Tuesday 14th of April 2020 04:40:10 PM
Old 04-14-2020
I'm afraid you'll have to deploy the dangerous and deprecated eval like

Code:
while read -r line           
  do    eval echo "\${!$line[*]}: \${$line[*]}"              
  done < file1.txt
0 1 2: 1 2 3
0 1 2: 4 5 6
0 1 2: 7 8 9

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EVAL(1P)						     POSIX Programmer's Manual							  EVAL(1P)

PROLOG
This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult the correspond- ing Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the interface may not be implemented on Linux. NAME
eval - construct command by concatenating arguments SYNOPSIS
eval [argument ...] DESCRIPTION
The eval utility shall construct a command by concatenating arguments together, separating each with a <space>. The constructed command shall be read and executed by the shell. OPTIONS
None. OPERANDS
See the DESCRIPTION. STDIN
Not used. INPUT FILES
None. ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
None. ASYNCHRONOUS EVENTS
Default. STDOUT
Not used. STDERR
The standard error shall be used only for diagnostic messages. OUTPUT FILES
None. EXTENDED DESCRIPTION
None. EXIT STATUS
If there are no arguments, or only null arguments, eval shall return a zero exit status; otherwise, it shall return the exit status of the command defined by the string of concatenated arguments separated by <space>s. CONSEQUENCES OF ERRORS
Default. The following sections are informative. APPLICATION USAGE
None. EXAMPLES
foo=10 x=foo y='$'$x echo $y $foo eval y='$'$x echo $y 10 RATIONALE
None. FUTURE DIRECTIONS
None. SEE ALSO
Special Built-In Utilities COPYRIGHT
Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2003 Edition, Standard for Information Technol- ogy -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6, Copyright (C) 2001-2003 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html . IEEE
/The Open Group 2003 EVAL(1P)
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