On Friday, Nov 24th 2006 at 14:44 +0530, quoth Kaushal Shriyan: =>Hi => =>Below is my script => =>########################################## =>#!/bin/bash => =>v1=20 =>v2=30 =>v3=40 => =>i=1 => =>for i in 1 2 3 =>do =>echo $'v'$i'' =>done => =>########################################## => =>I want to print the values of v1,v2 and v3 => =>Thanks => =>Kaushal First of all, a big fat BOOO to all those people who were clever enough to play with eval `echo...` #!/bin/bash v1=20 v2=30 v3=40 i=1 for i in 1 2 3 do jj="v$i" echo ${!jj} done -- Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have .0. happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ ..0 Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- 000 individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? steveo at syslang.net