String manipulation in sh block

[Idan Adar]

Appreciate help with getting the following block right (I always get confused with strings and double/single/escaped quotes):

Right now the below puts the message "Bump version number (${version}) [ci skip]" in the commit message.

The wanted result is for ${version} to actually be the extracted version number rather than the variable name as-is...

sshagent (credentials: ['...']) {
   sh '''
      git clone -b master git@github.***.git
      ...
      ...
      version=$(jq \".version\" package.json | tr -d '\"')
      git commit -am "Bump version number (${version}) [ci skip]"
      git push origin master
   '''
}

[Idan Adar]

Okay, got it at last.

The backslashes weren't needed.

version=$(jq \".version\" package.json | tr -d '\"')