Re: ${!vname} not documented

[Mikel Ward]

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> Mikel Ward wrote:
> > I was unfamiliar with ${!VAR}.  As far as I can tell, it's not documented
> >  in the man page or the info pages.
> 
> either your documentation is out of date (old bash install) or you just 
> missed 
> it.  it's under Parameter Expansion.
> -mike

Ah, I see it.

It's in a block of text not using the exclamation point at all.

It would be more obvious if it had a paragraph directly below
${parameter} saying something like:

       ${!name}
       Indirect expansion.  name is expanded to produce the name of a
variable to expand.