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$greeting="Hello World"
${greeting}="Hello World"

greeting="Hello World"

Alternatively, if the goal was to assign to a variable whose name is in another variable (indirection), use declare:

name=foo
declare "$name=hello world"
echo "$foo"

Or if you actually wanted to compare the value, use a test expression:

if [ "$greeting" = "hello world" ]
then
  echo "Programmer, I presume?"
fi

Unlike Perl or PHP, $ is not used on the left-hand side of = when assigning to a variable.

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