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variable-substitution

Variable substitution with an exclamation mark in bash

August 11, 2022 by Magenaut

I have the following lines in my .cfg bash script file

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${!FOO} and zsh

August 10, 2022 by Magenaut

${!FOO} performs a double substitution in bash, meaning it takes the (string) value of FOO and uses it as a variable name.
zsh doesn’t support this feature.

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags bash, for, variable-substitution, zsh Leave a comment

Can command substitution be nested in variable substitution?

August 9, 2022 by Magenaut

I would like to use variable substitution on a particular string that I access via a command. For example, if I copy something into my clipboard, I can access it like this.

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Is it possible to print the content of the content of a variable with shell script? (indirect referencing)

August 8, 2022 by Magenaut

Let’s suppose I’ve declared the following variables:

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Behaviour of bash command substitution with command from string in variable

August 8, 2022 by Magenaut

There are seven kinds of expansion … The order of expansions is: brace expansion; tilde expansion, parameter and variable expansion, arithmetic expansion, and command substitution (done in a left-to-right fashion); word splitting; and filename expansion

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Bash variable substitution of variable followed by underscore

August 7, 2022 by Magenaut

The variable BUILDNUMBER is set to value 230. I expect 230_ to be printed for the command echo $BUILDNUMBER_ but the output is empty as shown below.

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