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Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 16:33:48 +0200
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Subject: Re: is variable with variable name possible?
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Cc: Stephane Chazelas <stephane_chazelas@yahoo.fr>, zzapper <david@tvis.co.uk>
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2011/4/4 Stephane Chazelas <stephane_chazelas@yahoo.fr>:
> 2011-04-04 15:48:32 +0200, J=C3=A9r=C3=A9mie Roquet:
> [...]
>> 2011/4/4 zzapper <david@tvis.co.uk>:
>> > somevar=3D$(pwd)
>> >
>> > but I want somevar to be a variable name
>>
>> $ eval "$somevar=3D$(pwd)"
> [...]
>
> No!
>
> eval "$somevar=3D\$(pwd)"
> or
> eval "$somevar=3D\$PWD"
>
>
> Or think of what would happen if $PWD was "/tmp/x;rm -rf /home"

Oh, right!

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