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I would like to do in bash something I was doing with perl years ago

$4 (value from a script) can have the value "S" or "U"

I have:

DirectoryU="$Directory/*.$2"
DirectoryS="$Directory/area $3/*.$2"

and I want to define "DirectoryC" to something like:

DirectoryC=Directory$4

but there I dont want DirectoryC=DirectoryU (or DirectoryS) I want DirectoryC to have the value of DirectoryU (or DirectoryS) so after I can base my script on $DirectoryC ...

Does it make sense?

Cyrus
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marciton
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    This sounds like a job for indirect expansion (making it a possible duplicate of [this question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10820343/how-can-i-generate-new-variable-names-on-the-fly-in-a-shell-script)), or possibly an associative array (using `Directory["U"]` instead of `DirectoryU`, etc). – Gordon Davisson Apr 05 '20 at 23:39
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    Note that you should probably be using arrays instead of strings (scalar variables in Perl terminology). Trying to store a list of names in a single string will break down the moment any of them has spaces. – Charles Duffy Apr 06 '20 at 00:53

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