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String Evaluation Not Working

I have the following code.

#! usr/bin/bash

schemaPrefix=("aos")
tables_aos=("A" "B" "C")

for j in "${!schemaPrefix[@]}"; do

aschema=${schemaPrefix[j]}
schema=$aschema
eval tables=tables_$aschema
echo ${tables[@]}
done

The code should display:
A B C
However, it displays:
tables_aos

I have several lists. They are named as "table" followed by underscore and a suffix. For example, table_aos, table_apd, etc. I want to loop through all those lists and print the content of each list.

try:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

 

suffix="aos"

tables_aos=("A" "B" "C")

echo table data = ${tables_aos[@]}

name=tables_${suffix}[@]

echo name of table = $name

data=${!name}

echo all the data =  ${data[@]}

 

echo individual data:

for arg in ${data[@]}; do

echo $arg

done

gives:

Code:

table data = A B C

name of table = tables_aos[@]

all the data = A B C

individual data:

A

B

C

your #! is wrong it should be an absolute path and BASH is usually in /bin/bash rather than /usr/bin/bash
!is redirect and you should try to avoid eval where possible
USE CODE TAGS!