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Hi
I have a password stored in a file (which is a user input)
The password is having the special character $
say the password is pw$ord and is stored in the file pw_note
I am using the following statement to store the passowrd in a
variable
$schema_pwd = `cat $dir/pwd_note` ;
Now if i print the $schema_pwd
it only shows pw
It seems that it is considering $ord as variable and not printing it

Even if the user inputs pw\$ord while prompting for the password the password is stored as pw$ord and while reading with the above startement it is read as pw
can somebody please help me so that it reads as pw$ord instead of pw

Thanks in advance
Suresh

Post your whole script. Then we can see what are you doing wrong.
You can try cat -v for printing special characters

In csh and ksh its possible

for CSH
==========

server1% cat pass
amit$12
server1% set VAR=`cat pass`
server1% echo $VAR
amit$12

Or in ksh it will be

for KSH
==========
amit@server1 ars $ cat pass
amit$12
amit@server1 ars $ export VAR=`cat pass`
amit@server1 ars $ echo $VAR
amit$12

Thanks for your replies will test and let you know

Hi
For me the $ export VAR=`cat pass`
worked fine
Thanks