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How do I correctly pass an environment variable with spaces to a Docker container using the -e flag?

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April 18, 2025 Score: 0 Rep: 1,792 Quality: Low Completeness: 40%

Try to use double backslash to escape interpreting \1

sudo docker run --network host --name headnode --restart always -d \ -e HOSTGROUP="BUH\\100 user" \ "$headnodeimage" sleep infinity

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