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From: Omen Wild <Omen.Wild@Dartmouth.EDU>
To: zsh users <zsh-users@sunsite.dk>
Subject: Re: Build a variable name from another variable?
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 19:51:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040124005150.GA14079@descolada.dartmouth.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4011B29F.8040304@uk.ibm.com> <87oesugsnb.fsf@ceramic.fifi.org>

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Quoting Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> on Fri, Jan 23 15:19:
>
> % t="${baz}contents"   
> % echo ${${(P)t}}
> bar contents
> 
> Works...
> i could not manage to do it without an intermediate variable.

Ah, this will probably work for me.

Quoting Cosmo <cosmo@uk.ibm.com> on Fri, Jan 23 23:47:
>
> Back in the old days, before these fancy complicated shells, I'd just do 
> this:

I simplified a bit for the example, I'm actually trying to do stuff
much more complicated than just a echo...

Thanks,
   Omen

-- 
Where do forest rangers go to "get away from it all"?

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-24  0:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-23 22:42 Omen Wild
2004-01-23 23:19 ` Philippe Troin
2004-01-24  0:51   ` Omen Wild [this message]
2004-01-24  2:36     ` Bart Schaefer
2004-01-23 23:47 ` Cosmo

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