How to pass a variable in a curl command in shell scripting

Question

I have a curl command:

curl -u ${USER_ID}:${PASSWORD} -X GET \'http://blah.gso.woo.com:8080/rest/job-execution/job-details/${job_id}\'

The

Answer 1

When using variables in shell, you can only use doubles quotes, not single quotes : the variables inside single quotes are not expanded. Learn the difference between ' and " and `. See http://mywiki.wooledge.org/Quotes and http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/syntax/words