How to escape the dollar sign?

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
38/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
python, shell, yaml
Domain
cli

Research direction

The report identifies a tmuxp YAML shell_command containing a literal $PATH, but names no source file, test, or entry point. Start by reproducing the example and tracing how shell_command values are parsed and passed to tmux. Done means the command preserves the intended literal $PATH without breaking normal variable handling.

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Description

Here's an example tmuxp yaml config part:

    panes:
      - shell_command:
        - autossh -t -p 30360 tmp@localhost 'PATH=~/.nvm/versions/node/v20.16.0/bin:$PATH && cd pg && npx local-web-server -p 30361'

The problem is simply, the $PATH part expands on the tmux session (what I do not desire and expect) which breaks the command, so I need to disable the feature (?) or safely escape such character(s).

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