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Re: Shell - escapes

From Frédéric Marchal <frederic.marchal@wowtechnology.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Shell - escapes
Date 2016-05-10 12:30 +0200
Message-ID <rxd5p-FH-33@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
References <rxcj0-8b4-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
Organization Wow Technology

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On Tuesday 10 May 2016 11:18:06 Die Optimisten wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> How can I escape a ' inside '...'
> e.g. perl -e 'print '$ and a' '    # I don't want to use "

This seems to work:

    perl -e 'print '\''$ and a'\'

It must be understood as the concatenation of these strings:

* literal string: 'print '
* escaped \'
* literal string: '$ and a'
* escaped \'

Frederic

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      Re: Shell - escapes "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2016-05-10 13:10 +0200
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  Re: Shell - escapes Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-05-10 12:10 +0200
    Re: Shell - escapes "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2016-05-10 12:50 +0200
      Re: Shell - escapes Die Optimisten <inform@die-optimisten.net> - 2016-05-10 14:20 +0200
        Re: Shell - escapes <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-05-10 14:30 +0200
          Re: Shell - escapes Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-05-10 15:20 +0200
            Re: Shell - escapes David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-05-10 16:00 +0200
            Re: Shell - escapes Mart van de Wege <mvdwege@gmail.com> - 2016-05-12 10:10 +0200
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        Re: Shell - escapes "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2016-05-10 16:20 +0200
          Re: Shell - escapes David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-05-10 16:30 +0200
            Re: Shell - escapes "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2016-05-10 16:50 +0200
          Re: Shell - escapes <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-05-10 16:40 +0200
  Re: Shell - escapes shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> - 2016-05-10 12:20 +0200
  Re: Shell - escapes Frédéric Marchal <frederic.marchal@wowtechnology.com> - 2016-05-10 12:30 +0200
  Re: Shell - escapes Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2016-05-10 15:40 +0200
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