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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 01:37:42 +1100
Subject: Re: Quotation Ugliness
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On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 12:45 AM, Jussi Piitulainen
<jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> wrote:
> Tim Chase writes:
>
>> This doesn't jibe with the pairs of quotes you sent and your request
>> for nesting.  In most popular shells, the majority of your "quote"
>> characters don't actually quote anything:
>>
>>   bash$ echo // hello
>>   hello
>
> Where did the // go?

I've no idea.

rosuav@sikorsky:~$ echo // hello
// hello

Works for me.

ChrisA