On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:41 PM, Jonathan Nieder <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Rafael,
>
> Rafael Fernandez wrote:
>
> > set -- a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
> > i=1
> > eval echo '$'$i # outputs an expected 'a'
> > i=10
> > eval echo '$'$i # outputs 'a0'; expected 'j'
> > i=11
> > eval echo '$'$i # outputs 'b1'; expected 'k'
>
> Have you tried
>
> eval "echo \${$i}"
>
> ?
>
> That has nothing to do with eval. The only way to explicitly expand a
positional
parameter > 9 is to use braces, echo "${10}"
