Re: variable indirection and arrays ?

[Paul Jarc]

Jorma Laaksonen <jorma.laaksonen@hut.fi> wrote:
> bash-2.05a$ a=(xxx yyy zzz)
> bash-2.05a$ b=a
> bash-2.05a$ echo ${a[@]}
> xxx yyy zzz
> bash-2.05a$ echo ${!b[@]}
> xxx

! is just syntactic sugar.  You can use eval to get the same effect:
eval "echo \${${b}[@]}"


paul