php-eval: unexpected '=' in drush/commands/core/core.drush.inc(658)

$ drush php-eval '$blah = "blah\n"; print($blah);' blah $ drush php-eval "$blah = 'blah\n'; print($blah);" PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '=' in /usr/local/share/drush/commands/core/core.drush.inc(658) : eval()'d code on line 1

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🇦🇺Australia silverham

For those who find this via Search engines, you can pipe to `drush php-eval` like follows, depending on what style you like in bash.

read -r -d '' DRUSH_TEMP_COMMAND <<'EOF'; ./vendor/bin/drush php-eval "$DRUSH_TEMP_COMMAND"
var_dump(\Drupal::service('file_system')->getTempDirectory());
var_dump("TEST2");
EOF

DRUSH_TEMP_COMMAND=$(cat <<'END'
var_dump(\Drupal::service('file_system')->getTempDirectory());
var_dump("TEST");
END
); ./vendor/bin/drush php-eval "$DRUSH_TEMP_COMMAND"

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