Special characters..echo "!"

[amonamon]

Hello..
I am doing one script and problem goes with special character..

I need to ahve in file this line:



and I did this:

echo "<\!DOCTYPE batchscript SYSTEM \"batch.dtd\">" > finalF

but this does put in finalF this:

<\!DOCTYPE batchscript SYSTEM "batch.dtd">

if I do this:

var="!"
echo "<$var DOCTYPE batchscript SYSTEM \"batch.dtd\">" > finalF

I get:


with space after "!"

stupid small problem ..can anyone figure it I know it is something small..

Regards.. :)

[Oviwan]

Hy

Try it with single quotes:

echo ''

Regards

[Peter Godron]

Hi,
on my machine:
$ echo "" > finalF

$ cat finalF

[Dennis Handly · Accepted solution]

Why did you think you needed to quote the "!"?

In your $var case, if you don't want a space you could use:
echo "<${var}DOCTYPE ...

But as Peter and Oviwan say, use single quotes.

[amonamon]

thanks...last post solved problem...

{} was a catch...