[Gllug] bash indirect variable referencing ugliness

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 03:45:38PM +0000, Julian Somers wrote:
> Take a deep breath, hold your nose, and scroll down to my hideous hack
> to do indirect variable reference in this bash script.
> 
> Is there a more elegant way to do this? I wrote it yesterday, and
> already I have forgotten what half of those evals and backtics are for!
> I hate to think what I'll make of it in a month's time.

Yes, just use Perl[1] instead. If you find yourself trying to do 
complex programming in bash, it is a sure sign that you shouldn't
be using bash :-)


Regards,
Dan.

[1] Or insert other real scripting language of choice if Perl
    scares you too much.
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