28 Sep
2018
28 Sep
'18
3:46 p.m.
On Friday 28 September 2018 14:39:29 Jerry Geis wrote:
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="$1"
Hi Jerry,
The problem is that bu the time you're in your script it's already too late.
myscript "$plusmore"
basically says take the contents of the environment plusmore and pass that to the script.
if you call
myscript '$plusmore'
you will get what you want.