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Old 06-13-2008
Urgent-reading a variable value

Hi,

I have a text file in which , I have contents like
t1=abc
t2=xyz
t3=awe
......

I am able to read contents of these variables in a script by

. /temp.txt
echo $t1

Now, what my requirement is something like this

a="t"
i=1

echo $a$i --->this is displaying t1

I need the value of t1 ...
like

echo $[$a$i] ----> I want the result of t1 as abc...

can any one help...it's urgent to my script now...
# 2  
Old 06-13-2008
Code:
eval echo \$$a$i

Search the forums for "eval"; it's been covered in more depth a number of times before.
# 3  
Old 06-13-2008
storing eval function

Thanks for that but How do i store the result of above eval function in a variable......

It's very urgent...

Thanks in advance...

Last edited by kaaakrishna; 06-13-2008 at 11:09 AM.. Reason: Urgent
# 4  
Old 06-16-2008
Code:
variable=`eval echo \\$$a$i`

The doubled backslashes are required because backticks undergo the same substitutions as double-quoted strings.
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