28 Sep
2018
28 Sep
'18
3:39 p.m.
I am calling a bash script and passing in somestring that includes a "$"
myscript "$plusmore"
I want to assign in the myscript the $1 arg to something like MYTEXT="$1"
when I do that I dont get what I'm expecting. if I do MYTEXT='$1' I still dont get what I'm expecting.
On the first assignment of MYTEXT I do not want the "$" to be treated as a shell variable. I cannot find out how to do that.
I do not have the option of escaping the call to myscipt "$plusmore". I cannot do that.
What am I missing.
Jerry