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 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos