Harry Henry Gebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 01:27:24PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: >> Actually, backslashes lose their special meaning inside single quotes in >> bash: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ echo '\\\' >> \\\ > >Guess that shows I shouldn't make assumptions.
Oddly, they seem to be interpreted in single quotes in ksh. Hmm. Not sure what that's a bug in, if anything. >So if you want to pass in a single quote you need to do this: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo '\\\'"'"'\\\' >\\\'\\\ That's one possibility, yes. I tend to use the '...'\''...' style myself. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
