Unable to print user input after executing the script by opening the gnome-terminal

Question

I am trying to make the script which executes on terminal on double click and should ask for user input. To execute script open the gnome-terminal which will execute further script. After taking user input in RESP it unable to print the value passed(y/n). Gnome-terminal with nautilus.

gnome-terminal -- bash -c "read -p 'Include log?(y/n)' RESP
echo '$RESP'
    if[ '$RESP' = 'y' ]; then
       //logic for yes
    else
       //logic for no
    fi; 
exec bash"

echo $RESP not printing anything?

Answer 1

Try this

bash -c "read -p 'Include log?(y/n)' RESP
echo \$RESP
if [ \$RESP = 'y' ]; then
  echo y
else
  echo n
fi"

You need to escape the $ for your variables instead of putting it into '