Question

I hope the question makes sense, I would like to do something like:

a=test
b=a
echo ${$b} # should echo test

Basically I'd like $b to expand to the value a and have bash echo out the value of variable $a (since ${a} is test).

What syntax should I use?

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Solution

a=test
b=a
echo ${!b} # does echo test
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