Can a variable be placed into an Execute Shell Script action?

Questions & Suggestions
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I have a shell script that I want a variable in.

The shell script is:

open --background 'one-thing:?text='

I want to put my variable in after the equals symbol.

The variable I want to put in is varToday.

Am I close with either of these?

open --background 'one-thing:?text=%Variable%varLink%'

open --background 'one-thing:?text=$KMVAR_varToday'

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Hello Jim (@Jim) :wave:

It’s the second one

From the Wiki Pages:

Keyboard Maestro variables are included in the environment of the script, with the prefix KMVAR_ and spaces in the name replaced with underscores (_)

For more information on using Variables in Keyboard Maestro visit Execute a Shell Script - #Using Keyboard Maestro Variables.

Greetings from Germany

Tobias

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Thanks Nr.5-need_input

I tried:

open --background 'one-thing:?text=$KMVAR_varToday'

…and it idid not work.

So, I started experimenting with quotes.

This seems to work:

open --background 'one-thing:?text='"$KMVAR_varToday"''

Does anyone have any corrections to the quotes? Or advice on such?

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If the text contained in the variable has for example spaces in it then the quotes are mandatory.

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Thanks Taj

I could not tell @Jim better ....

@Jim read the wiki Page .... I've had it done just before answering here just to be sure....

Greetings from Germany

Tobias

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