Posted by halol on Feb 28, 2020; 8:41am
URL: https://discuss.asciidoctor.org/skipping-reference-to-missing-attribute-tp7687p7700.html

Thank you both for your replies.

Escaping the shell variable is indeed what I need, and I now feel a bit dumb for not thinking about it before. Specially since I have been struggling with the opposite problem: attributes being escaped when I don't want them to be.

For example:

:folder_name:  Path
[source,shell,subs=attributes+]
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D:\Windows\{folder_name}
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Which very obviously doesn't produce the expected results. That should have given me the solution to my current problem!

And I take good note of the comment regarding subs=attributes.

Thanks again.