Re: ${!vname} not documented

[Mike Frysinger]

On Tuesday 06 October 2009 01:39:56 Mikel Ward wrote:
> 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 either your documentation is out of date (old bash install) or you just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.
> 
> 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.

i imagine Chet takes patches
-mike

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