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kilgoretrout
kilgoretrout

Reputation: 3657

bash: echo string with special characters into a file

I have looked all over but can't get anything to work for my situation.

I need to add a string to a file automatically (i.e., this will be called from a Dockerfile) but I can't figure out how to escape the special characters.

I need to add the the following exact string push!(LOAD_PATH, "/home/ngsim_env/julia/AutoEnvs") to a file ~/.juliarc.jl. I tried escaping all the special characters as follows:

echo "push\!(LOAD_PATH, \"/home/ngsim_env/julia/AutoEnvs\")" >> ~/.juliarc.jl

but this gives the error bash: push\!(LOAD_PATH, "/home/ngsim_env/julia/AutoEnvs"): No such file or directory

This is all taking place inside a Docker Ubuntu 16.04 container and the output of bash --version is GNU bash, version 4.3.48(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3521

Answers (1)

Darby_Crash
Darby_Crash

Reputation: 446

You can try this:

echo 'push!(LOAD_PATH, "/home/ngsim_env/julia/AutoEnvs")' >> "$HOME/.juliarc.jl"

Upvotes: 3

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