There are times when you are writing a script and you have the name of a variable as a variable and the desired value as another variable. Now you want to declare the stored name as a variable and assign the stored value to it. This is how you do it.
#!/bin/bash
variableName="test"
variableVal="123"
eval ${variableName}=`echo -ne \""${variableVal}"\"`
echo $test #"test" variable created dynamically using eval
What the script does is, it creates a variable with a name same as the string(“test”) stored in $variableName
, and assigns it the value equal to the one stored in $variableVal
(“123”).