Re: create variables in a loop?

In article <lbog03FfbrqU1@mid.individual.net>,
Dr Eberhard W Lisse  <nospam@lisse.NA> wrote:

Hi,
>
I would like to do something like
>
for i in USD GBP
do
$i=somevalue
done
>
does not work, of course.

The general answer is to use "eval", so something like:

for i in USD GBP
do
eval $i=somevalue
done

But this doesn't scale well if "somevalue" is other than a simple string.
(But see below...)

Alternatively, with bash, you can use the "nameref" capability - see the
man page for details.

Update to add: this actually works:

    for i in one two three;do eval $i='"$(fortune)"';done

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