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Jenkins to Powershell - Do I need to escape dollar signs in passed parameters?

I have a Jenkins pipeline that invokes a Powershell script via the Powershell plugin. The pipeline uses withCredentials to put the user/password for Powershell to use in SQL connections into variables. I pass them as properties on the command:

def psCmd="./Set-CheckmarxTeams -server ${server} -jkuser $sqluser -jkpass $sqlpass"

The script has them defined as parameters:

param ([string]$server='ad1hfddbst930\shared',[string]$jkuser,[string]$jkpass)

but the SQL connection using $jkuser and $jkpass fails. The password has a $ in the middle. I tried to Write-Host $jkpass and it only shows the part up to the $, but nothing after it. Do I need to modify the string before passing it in? If so, how?

Solution

  • "Escaping" the dollar sign is easy and good to know. In this case, @Richard Schaefer needed to pass the entire string of a password that included the dollar sign.

    Storing a string in the $jkpass variable like so:

    $jkpass = "thisisa$password"

    Would output: thisisa

    Therefore, storing the password with single quotes eliminates this issue.

    $jkpass = 'thisisa$password'

    This outputs: thisisa$password