Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I want to get content of a$i variables with one command:

a1=/tmp1.log
a2=/tmp2.log

for i in 1 2;do
log=<some code>
echo $log
done

and get the content of a1 and a2:
/tmp1.log
/tmp2.log

Thanks

Code:

$
$
$ # display the content of file f9
$ cat f9
a1=/tmp1.log
a2=/tmp2.log
$
$ # set the field separator
$ IFS="="
$
$ # read the variable and its value from f9
$ while read var value
> do
>   echo $value
> done <f9
/tmp1.log
/tmp2.log
$
$

tyler_durden

Or without setting the IFS -

Code:

$
$
$ cat f9
a1=/tmp1.log
a2=/tmp2.log
$
$ while read line
> do
>   log=`echo ${line##*=}`
>   echo $log
> done <f9
/tmp1.log
/tmp2.log
$
$

thanks, but this solution is missing the point

a1,a2 variables are just an example. I want to use indexes 1,2,3... to append to other variables as well, e.g. c1,c2,c3.

And I don't want to use predefined arrays or save names in separate files.

a1=/tmp1.log
a2=/tmp2.log

b1=/var/tmp.log
b2=/var/tmp.log

...
....

for i in 1 2 ...;do
log=<some code> # $a$i
blog=<some code> # $b$i
....
echo $log
echo $blog
....
done