indirect shell-vars

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <627 at targon.UUCP>, ruud at targon.UUCP (Ruud Harmsen) writes:
> 
> sh -c "echo \$x`echo $xx`"
> 
> Are there any better/faster/shorter ways?  Perhaps using "eval", but
> also executes the string, which is too much.

How about:

eval echo \$$xx



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