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Subject: Re: minor bug with ${}
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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
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Peter Stephenson (pws@ifh.de) wrote:
> Consequently, you need one of the usual circumlocutions with eval,
> like
> eval echo \${${a}}

The same holds true for sh, bash and ksh. Neither of them support
${${a}}.

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