Re: [Help-bash] taking the name of a variable from another variable

[Greg Wooledge]

On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 04:21:55PM +0200, Marco Ippolito wrote:
> then perhaps
> something as simple as this is enough to set your environment variable:
> 
> name=foo value=bar; eval "export $name=$value"

That's an unsafe use of eval.  You need to escape the $ before value,
so that after the eval, the shell ends up running:

  export foo=$value

All other points (child processes, environment, sourcing) still apply.