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Re: ${!vname} not documented


From: Greg Wooledge
Subject: Re: ${!vname} not documented
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 08:16:03 -0400
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On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 03:25:31AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 October 2009 01:39:56 Mikel Ward wrote:
> > 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

When I sent a patch to make the manual more human-friendly (replacing
for example ! with $! so that people can search for $! and find it),
it was not accepted.




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