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How can I access an environment variable from another? I have the following in my shell
#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -x
export A_version=1.0.0
component=A
echo ${${component}_version}}
the bash script after the run gives me
temp.sh: line 9: ${${component}_version}}: bad substitution
You can use eval to do this. Here is a working version of your script that prints 1.0.0:
export A_version=1.0.0
component=A
eval "echo \$${component}_version"
For more information, see this page:
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ivr.html
Update: A safer way to do the same thing in Bash would be:
export A_version=1.0.0
component=A
var=${component}_version; echo "${!var}"
Note that you have to run this script with bash, not sh.
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AREA="DEV"
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What is wrong in this substitution.
$ m_d_ver=0.2
$ m=mod
$ d=dom
$ echo ${$m_$d_ver}
-bash: ${$m_$d_ver}: bad substitution
Thanks,
What you're trying to do is an indirect variable lookup. The syntax for that is ${!namevar}, where namevar is a variable that contains the name you actually want to evaluate. Thus:
mod_dom_ver=0.2
m=mod
d=dom
var=${m}_${d}_ver
echo "${!var}"
See BashFAQ #006.