Re: currently doable? Indirect notation used w/a hash

[Pierre Gaston]

On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 12:02 AM, Linda Walsh <bash@tlinx.org> wrote:
> I was wondering if I was missing some syntax somewhere...
> but I wanted to be able to pass the name of a hash in
> and store stuff in it and later retrieve it... but it
> looks like it's only possible with an eval or such?
>
> Would be nice....(??)*sigh*
>

bash4 has associative arrays:

declare -A array
array[foobar]=baz
echo "${array[foobar]}"