how do I echo an asterisks to an output

Question

The line in my shell script is

OUTPUTMESSAGE="****Warning error $MYERRORNUM ****"
echo $OUTPUTMESSAGE

The asterisks are expanded to file names so it looks like

file1  file2 file 3 file4 Warning error 404  file1  file2 file 3 file4

How do I prevent the * expansion in echo?

Is valid for bash, try it: http://www.compileonline.com/execute_bash_online.php — Leandro Bardelli, Nov 09 '14 at 22:02

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:12

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Quote the variable name not only in assignment, but also in your echo command:

OUTPUTMESSAGE="****Warning error $MYERRORNUM ****"
echo "$OUTPUTMESSAGE"

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edited May 23 '17 at 12:12

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answered Nov 09 '14 at 22:16

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