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Re: indirection as an lvalue
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Greg Wooledge |
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Re: indirection as an lvalue |
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Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:54:22 -0400 |
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On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:49:43AM -0600, Bill Gradwohl wrote:
> This is a trivial example, but gives you the idea.
> for x in 'VAR_A' 'VAR_B' 'VAR_C'; do
> # What I'd like to say is
> !x="hello"
> done
In bash 4, you can use associative arrays, which gives you what you
really want.
Apart from that, there are several tricks for doing this; I have a
fairly good list of them at http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/006