Re: Simple bash question

[Gary Stainburn <gary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.
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