I think this is probably an X-Y problem.
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/XyProblem

Something missing is a description what the OP is trying to accomplish.

At least in shell scripts, every time I've thought I needed to declare a 
variable name dynamically it turned out I was missing a better solution 
somewhere. (In the case of metaprogramming I've never found Bash to be the 
right tool.)

On Saturday 07 June 2014 04:41:14 Brandon Vincent wrote:
> eval variable="${x}Status"
> echo ${!variable}
> 
> Brandon Vincent