Need help in fixing this bash script to set a variable with a value including double quotes. Somehow I am defining this incorrectly as my values foo
and bar
are not enclosed in double quotes as needed.
My script thus far:
#!/usr/local/bin/bash
set -e
set -x
host='127.0.0.1'
db='mydev'
_account="foo"
_profile="bar"
_version=$1
_mongo=$(which mongo);
exp="db.profile_versions_20170420.find({account:${_account}, profile:${_profile}, version:${_version}}).pretty();";
${_mongo} ${host}/${db} --eval "$exp"
set +x
Output shows:
+ host=127.0.0.1
+ db=mydev
+ _account=foo
+ _profile=bar
+ _version=201704112004
++ which mongo
+ _mongo=/usr/local/bin/mongo
+ exp='db.profile_versions_20170420.find({account:foo, profile:bar, version:201704112004}).pretty();'
+ /usr/local/bin/mongo 127.0.0.1/mydev --eval 'db.profile_versions_20170420.find({account:foo, profile:bar, version:201704112004}).pretty();'
MongoDB shell version: 3.2.4
connecting to: 127.0.0.1/mydev
2017-04-22T15:32:55.012-0700 E QUERY [thread1] ReferenceError: foo is not defined :
@(shell eval):1:36
What i need is account:"foo"
, profile:"bar"
to be enclosed in double quotes.
In bash (and other POSIX shells), the following 2 states are equivalent:
_account=foo
_account="foo"
What you want to do is to preserve the quotations, therefore you can do the following:
_account='"foo"'