Re: [OCLUG-Tech] bash question

[Alexandre de Abreu <alexandre [ dot ] abreu [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com>]

Hi Jeremy,

Interesting subject. I think you can do it with eval(), the following
script will print "Linux":

#!/bin/bash

BOO="var_name"
eval "$BOO=Linux"
echo $var_name

exit 0

Cheers

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Alexandre de Abreu
GCUX, RHCE, LPIC-2