Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I need to generate the text name dynamically in for loop,

ex,

Code:

VAR_COPY_FILE1= file path 1
VAR_COPY_FILE2= file path 2
VAR_COPY_FILE3= file path 3
 
for i in 1 2 3 
do

 if [ ${"VAR_COPY_FILE"+$i} != "XXX" ]
   then
 
"do some process here"
 
fi
done

But in for loop if statement I cant create the variable to check, am getting bad substitution error.

Can anyone please help to resolve this?

Regards
Subash

Hi

Code:

if [ ${VAR_COPY_FILE}${i} != "XXX" ]

Guru

are you trying to concatenate?
just

${B}${A}
should do this for you..

Hi Guru,

here it returns as 1 only, the value I stored in VAR_COPY_FILE is not appending it... basically I want to append the vaue stored in the variable and after constructed the new variable again need to be executed...

Regarads
Subash

---------- Post updated at 08:04 PM ---------- Previous update was at 07:54 PM ----------

Hi Busy boy,

The problem is $(B) cannot be executed before adding the $(A) returned value,

for ex,

B= test
A=file
testfile = testfile.txt

But dynammically only I can get the values thats why I have for loop.. if we add $(B)$(A) it is returning null for each one.. are you getting my problem?