I have a docker container I want to run and hand it over some passwords. One with an exclamation mark ! and the other one with an ampersand &. So I want to run this:
docker run -i -t --rm \ -e "LDAP_FILTER=(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)" \ -e "LDAP_PASS=Secret!Password" \ user-prefix/container-name That does not work. & gets replaced to {LDAP_FILTER} and the ! get truncated. I'm pretty sure I have to escape these. But \! and \& didn't work out.
2 Answers
I found a solution:
- Using single-quotes instead of double-quotes
- Escape the ampersand
&to\& - Not escaping the exclamation mark
!
so this works:
docker run -i -t --rm \ -e 'LDAP_FILTER=(\&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)' \ -e 'LDAP_PASS=Secret!Password' \ user-prefix/container-name If you cannot use single-quotes for the entire string for some reason (e.g. variable expansion), this is probably the best solution: In bash, how do I escape an exclamation mark?
In summary: Use "'!'" around the exclamation mark:
echo "hello there"'!'" and goodbye" 
