curl output to use single quotes for password

[peterk]

Our system uses

java -jar /home/dev/swagger-codegen-cli-2.2.1.jar ... -i /home/....xxx.yaml

to generate (inter alia) the doc page:

Is there some way to get it to output

'USERNAME:PASSWORD'

instead  (ie with simple rather than double quotes) ?

Many thanks.

[HKosova]

Is there a specific reason you want single quotes? Double quotes are better because such commands work in both Windows and *nix/bash. Single quotes only work in *nix/bash but not in Windows.

[peterk · Accepted solution]

To  prevent BASH processing $xxx as a variable.

But thanks for that, am going to pass it up the management chain.