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IgorAlves
Asked: 2019-01-18 13:29:38 +0800 CST

How to escape a single quote inside a double quote string in bash script?

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I am trying to run the follow bash code:

#!/bin/bash
export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive

DB_USER='abc'
DB_USER_PASSWORD='123'
DB_MAGENTO='db_magento'

sudo apt-get update  
echo debconf mysql-server/root_password password $DB_USER_PASSWORD | sudo debconf-set-selections
echo debconf mysql-server/root_password_again password $DB_USER_PASSWORD | sudo debconf-set-selections        
sudo apt-get -qq install mysql-server > /dev/null # Install MySQL quietly
sudo mysql -uroot -p123  -e "CREATE SCHEMA ${DB_MAGENTO} DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8;SHOW DATABASES;CREATE USER \'${DB_USER}\'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY ${DB_USER_PASSWORD};GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON * . * TO \'${DB_USER}\'@'localhost'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;SELECT Host,User,Password FROM mysql.user;"

The error I am getting is ERROR at line 1: Unknown command '\''. Seems to be related with \'${DB_USER}\' .

How to escape these single quotes properly?

UPDATE

Afetr @Sergiy suggestion I am getting another error:

#!/bin/bash
export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive

DB_USER='ila'
DB_USER_PASSWORD='123'
DB_MAGENTO='db_magento'

    mysql -uroot -p123  -e "SHOW DATABASES;CREATE USER '${DB_USER}'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY ${DB_USER_PASSWORD};GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON * . * TO '${DB_USER}'@'localhost'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;SELECT Host,User,Password FROM mysql.user;"

Error:

$ sudo ./installMagento.sh 
mysql: [Warning] Using a password on the command line interface can be insecure.
+--------------------+
| Database           |
+--------------------+
| information_schema |
| db_magento         |
| mysql              |
| performance_schema |
| sys                |
+--------------------+
ERROR 1064 (42000) at line 1: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '123' at line 1
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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You should not need to use \ with double quotes:

    $ DB_USER='abc'; echo "test '${DB_USER}'"
test 'abc'

    Alternatively, you can break the double quote, and escape the single quote - that's where it's necessary:

    $ DB_USER='abc';  echo "test"\'"${DB_USER}"\'
test'abc'

    Yet another way would be to use printf with command substitution and using hex value for the quote (\x27):

    sudo mysql -uroot -p123  -e "$(printf 'CREATE SCHEMA \x27%s\x27 DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8;SHOW DATABASES;CREATE USER \x27%s\x27@\x27localhost\x27 IDENTIFIED BY %s ; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON * . * TO \x27%s\x27@'localhost'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;SELECT Host,User,Password FROM mysql.user;' ${DB_MAGENTO} ${DB_USER} ${DB_USER_PASSWORD}  ${DB_USER})"

    Side note: you have 3 commands in the script calling sudo. This is redundant. Just run the whole script as sudo myscript.sh and remove the need to add sudo to each of those lines.

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