Shell Programming and Scripting

I am trying to get a variable to work within a script, but it is giving me issues.

Goes like:

echo "var"

I enter: '12345'

read var

echo "$var"

It returns: '12345'

I am trying to get it to run in a script which has usage of script.sh "'12345'" (I cannot modify this script)

script.sh "$var"

script doesn't work because it shows as 12345 without quotes

I have tried multiple ways to try and get it to work with adding ', `, parenth etc, but can't figure it out

Any tips?

Hi,

Try this out

Code:

VAR=12345
echo "\"$VAR\""

o/p:- "12345"

i have tried it successfully....

@OP: What does the script look like?

dont have my other machine with me, but the script takes a bunch of #'s that are VARCHAR so they have to be comma separated(if you're doing more than one) and in single quotes.

I know what you mean though, Ill post up the parameters within the script to show what it will accept when I get back to my other machine.

@vinit: i need the original variable to have single quotes because of the SQL's executed earlier within my script.

now im thinking i could maybe modify the SQL's to already have the single quotes so my variable doesn't need them.

Thanks all for the ideas so far