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Background

I needed to update a connection string in my docker compose; so I did just that.

It just so happened to be a Snowflake connection string.

WHEN TESTING IT KEPT SAYING WRONG USERNAME OR PASSWORD!

Luckily, in console output I saw that I was getting a weird warning:

The “xxx” variable is not set. Defaulting to blank string

Fix

This article helped lead me down the right path.

Well, it just so happens that $ is for variable interpolation and my password had a $.

So you need to escape it: $$

🤷