Re: VARs

[Larry Jones]

Andy Lewis writes:
> 
> My question, am I not allowed to do the following?
> 
>    cvs commit -m "Changed initial value of $my_var"
> 
> I would like $my_var to print out as is.

This has nothing whatsoever to do with CVS, it's a shell question.  The
shell substitutes environment variables inside double quoted strings, so
if you want something that looks like a variable substitution literally
instead, you either have to escape the $:

        cvs commit -m "Changed initial value of \$my_var"

or use single quotes instead:

        cvs commit -m 'Changed initial value of $my_var'

-Larry Jones

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