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# Using Variables To expand a variable in shell script, prefix the variable name with a dollar sign. For example: ``` foo=hello echo $foo ``` The variable `$foo` is substituted with its value, if any, after the expansion. In the above example, `$foo` expands to the string `hello`, so the output looks like this: ``` hello ```