Re: indirection as an lvalue

[Andreas Schwab]

Bill Gradwohl <bill@ycc.com> writes:

> My real world need is to assign temporary file names to named variables.
>
> makeTempFileName=''
> for x in 'TEMPLOG' 'TEMPFILELEFT' 'TEMPFILERIGHT'; do
>    makeTemp "${x}"   # function that does a lot of processing and
>                      # sets makeTempFileName equal
>                      # to /tmp/blahblah.??????
>    !x="${makeTempFileName}"
> done 

Use eval.

for x in 'TEMPLOG' 'TEMPFILELEFT' 'TEMPFILERIGHT'; do
   makeTemp "${x}"   # function that does a lot of processing and
                     # sets makeTempFileName equal
                     # to /tmp/blahblah.??????
   eval $x=\${makeTempFileName}
done 

Andreas.

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