writeScriptBin variable expansion or quoting

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This seems to be expecting a variable from nix - not the env.

    myscript = nixpkgs.writeScriptBin "myscript" ''
      #!/usr/bin/env bash
      echo "hello ${HOME}"      
      whoami
    '';

What’s the way to have both, shell and nix variable expansion?

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you can escape that $ with echo "hello ''${HOME}" (this kind of escape if for double single-quoted strings ''some string ''${SOMEENV}'' , for double-quoted strings use simple backslash
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