<div dir="ltr"><div>Would export work in a script? Huh... Arrays make some intuitive sense. Why is it these projects are never as simple as you think they're going to be when you start them?<br><br></div>Mike Bean<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Raymond DeRoo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rderoo@deroo.net" target="_blank">rderoo@deroo.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Mike:<div><br></div><div>export is your friend.</div><div><br></div><div><div><div class="h5">
<div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">OK, I am just thoroughly writer's blocked, probably missing something obvious; but who knows. Anyway, here's my question<br><br># node=somenode<br># echo $node<br>somenode<br>
# somenodeVar=5 <i><b> // if this works</b></i><br>
# echo $somenodeVar<br>5<br># $node"Var"=5 <i><b>// why doesn't this work?</b></i><br>bash: somenodeVar=5: command not found<br></div></blockquote><br></div></div></div><div><div>[16:06:18 rderoo@daggoo ~]$ node=somenode</div>
<div>[16:07:03 rderoo@daggoo ~]$ echo $node</div><div>somenode</div><div>[16:07:49 rderoo@daggoo ~]$ export "${node}Var"=5</div><div>[16:07:57 rderoo@daggoo ~]$ echo $somenodeVar;</div><div>5</div><div><div>[16:07:58 rderoo@daggoo ~]$ echo $somenodeVar;</div>
</div><div><br></div></div><br></div><div>For the time being well skip the discussion on why variable variables are bad and that one should really be using arrays...</div><div><br></div><div>Kind Regards,</div><div>Raymond</div>
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