How should I store values with dollar signs ($)...(escaped, quoted)?

[timkelty]

I have a .env file that is being parsed by both PHP and node Node implementations.

I'm asking here in the canonical repo, as this is more of a best practice question.

I have values that have literal dollar signs in them:

DB_PASS=DgaH$a43

Should I be quoting that, or escaping the dollar?
If I escape the dollar in my .env file, will I need to unescape it when i use it?

So I guess it boils down to - should I be escaping the dollar in my .env file, or when I get the value with PHP or Node or whatever?

[bkeepers]

The Ruby implementation of dotenv follows follows bash as closely as possible, which means $ needs to be escaped unless it is in single quotes. These are all valid:

DB_PASS=DgaH\$a43
DB_PASS="DgaH\$a43"
DB_PASS='DgaH$a43'

The value in ruby will be unescaped.

[timkelty]

The value in ruby will be unescaped.

Thanks! That's what I was looking for.

[tasaif]

This isn't working for me. The name of the environment variable is picked up but its value is an empty string.

[tasaif]

nvm I was accidentally using dot_env? Why is this package allowed to exist?