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I am running this little test script I wrote :

#!/bin/bash

TESTCASE=$@
testHarness <<runTest
$TESTCASE
runTest

from the command line :

./test.sh "1092$212"

but the dollar sign is being stripped out. If I escape it, it works. But I thought the double quotes would protect me from needing to do this. Can someone please help me understand whats going on and how to fix this?

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Variables are still expanded inside double quotes. If you want to avoid this behavior you should use single quotes instead.

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Thank you. This works. Is there a reason for this? – Amir Afghani May 11 '11 at 19:17
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Yes. It was designed that way! It's actually quite useful to be able to expand variables inside a quoted string. It's a feature. If you don't want the behavior, use single quotes, that's what they were designed for. – Caleb May 11 '11 at 19:20

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