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Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 15:06:51 +0100
From: Stephane Chazelas <stephane_chazelas@yahoo.fr>
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=E9r=E9mie?= Roquet <arkanosis@gmail.com>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>, zzapper <david@tvis.co.uk>
Subject: Re: is variable with variable name possible?
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2011-04-04 15:48:32 +0200, Jérémie Roquet:
[...]
> 2011/4/4 zzapper <david@tvis.co.uk>:
> > somevar=$(pwd)
> >
> > but I want somevar to be a variable name
> 
> $ eval "$somevar=$(pwd)"
[...]

No!

eval "$somevar=\$(pwd)"
or
eval "$somevar=\$PWD"


Or think of what would happen if $PWD was "/tmp/x;rm -rf /home"

-- 
Stephane