Can't seem to access associative array with named reference in bash

# SETUP PHP81 SYMLINKS declare -A cgi=([path]="/opt/remi/php81/root/usr/bin/php-cgi" [filename]="php-cgi81") declare -A config=([path]="/opt/remi/php81/root/usr/bin/php-config" [filename]="php-config81") declare -A phpize=([path]="/opt/remi/php81/root/usr/bin/phpize" [filename]="phpize81") declare -A pecl=([path]="/opt/remi/php81/root/usr/bin/pecl" [filename]="pecl81") declare -A pear=([path]="/opt/remi/php81/root/usr/bin/pear" [filename]="pear81") declare -a symlinks=("cgi" "config" "phpize" "pecl" "pear") echo -en "[INFO]: Setting up PHP 8.1 symlinks\n" cd /usr/bin for symlink in "${symlinks[@]}"; do echo -en "[INFO]: Creating symlink for ${symlink}\n" # Get the array that matches the string in symlink props="$symlink[@]" # Print out the filename property eg cgi[filename], config[filename], phpize[filename] echo ${!props[filename]} echo -en "\n" done There is the section of code giving me issues. It currently outputs ./upgrade.sh php-cgi81 /opt/remi/php81/root/usr/bin/php-cgi php-config81 /opt/remi/php81/root/usr/bin/php-config phpize81 /opt/remi/php81/root/usr/bin/phpize pecl81 /opt/remi/php81/root/usr/bin/pecl pear81 /opt/remi/php81/root/usr/bin/pear The expected output is ./upgrade.sh php-cgi8= php-config81 phpize81 pecl81 pear81 This is now solved I posted the solution below but someone down voted it because they dislike my solution but the solution I posted is working. But you decide what you want to use. Thanks for the help.