How to create a variable partially from another variable. Can it be done? I'm trying to do this; for X in A B; do Site_${X}="Value of $X" done bash: Site_A=Value of A: command not found bash: Site_B=Value of B: command not found I would like the variables Site_A & Site_B to contain some values. Any ideas?

Since your variable name includes a variable, the shell needs to parse (evaluate) the variable assignment line twice.  And to prevent the shell from removing the double-quotes on the initial evaluation (which would cause a syntax error), I protect them with back-slashes. for X in A B; do eval Site_${X}=\"Value of $X\" done echo $Site_A Value of A echo $Site_B Value of B So the line to be processed by the shell is: eval Site_${X}=\"Value of $X\" After the initial processing by the shell, we now have: eval Site_A="Value of A" Then the eval command causes the result to be processed again: Site_A="Value of A"

That's it! I must learn the value of the 'eval' command :) Thank you ever so much. Jake.