[Nottingham] Bash Variables

[Martin]

Mike,

> Thanks for the explanation Duncan, and also Dan for his reply.
> I think I the answer to the particualar problem is that we can't get at any previous values.

What is it that you're trying to do?

Can you not just simply pass the previous values as parameters?
Or pipe them in?
Or even write them to a real file to then be read in?

In desperation, you could use an array...

Cheers,
Martin

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