Re: hdparm script

[Kurt Bernhard Pruenner <pruenner@ssw.uni-linz.ac.at>]

Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 11:45:40AM +0200, Kurt Bernhard Pruenner wrote:
> > I guess using ${!foo} would help, which takes the content of the
> > variable foo and uses that as the variable to get the content from, i.e.
> >
> > foo=PATH
> > echo ${!foo}
> >
> > would print your PATH...
> 
> Beware that that's a bashism. You need eval to do it portably.

Somehow I feared that this was the case... is there a package that
provides a really, really plain shell (i.e. just /bin/sh, no funny
prefixes added) you can test such things against?
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