Comments on: BASH: Single-quotes inside of single-quoted strings http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2007/01/30/bash-single-quotes-inside-of-single-quoted-strings/ the personal blog of Stuart Colville covering modern web development techniques and best practices Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:07:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Matt http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2007/01/30/bash-single-quotes-inside-of-single-quoted-strings/#comment-64552 Matt Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:20:02 +0000 http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2007/01/30/bash-single-quotes-inside-of-single-quoted-strings/#comment-64552 So if you have a string that you're cleaning up, say in python: str.replace("'","'\\''") first ' - end single quoted string \\ - literal backslash ' - single quote to be backslashed ' - resume single quoted string Thanks! So if you have a string that you’re cleaning up, say in python:

str.replace(”‘”,”‘\\””)

first ‘ - end single quoted string
\\ - literal backslash
‘ - single quote to be backslashed
‘ - resume single quoted string

Thanks!

]]> By: Arif http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2007/01/30/bash-single-quotes-inside-of-single-quoted-strings/#comment-64516 Arif Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:25:02 +0000 http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2007/01/30/bash-single-quotes-inside-of-single-quoted-strings/#comment-64516 Worked perfectly! Digging it! Worked perfectly! Digging it!

]]> By: Isaac http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2007/01/30/bash-single-quotes-inside-of-single-quoted-strings/#comment-63849 Isaac Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:48:10 +0000 http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2007/01/30/bash-single-quotes-inside-of-single-quoted-strings/#comment-63849 Bingo! It works! Thanks. I needed it to use awk inside an alias. Bingo! It works! Thanks.
I needed it to use awk inside an alias.

]]> By: Poor Yorick http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2007/01/30/bash-single-quotes-inside-of-single-quoted-strings/#comment-63320 Poor Yorick Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:44:25 +0000 http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2007/01/30/bash-single-quotes-inside-of-single-quoted-strings/#comment-63320 It is documented in my version of the man page, dated 2002 July 15, in the section called QUOTING: Words of the form <code>$'string'</code> are treated specially... <code>\'</code> single quote It is documented in my version of the man page, dated 2002 July 15, in the section called QUOTING:

Words of the form $'string' are treated specially…

\' single quote

]]> By: Sam Morris http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2007/01/30/bash-single-quotes-inside-of-single-quoted-strings/#comment-38080 Sam Morris Wed, 16 May 2007 20:14:54 +0000 http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2007/01/30/bash-single-quotes-inside-of-single-quoted-strings/#comment-38080 You can also use ANSI C style quoting. This is not documented in bash's man page, annoyingly. <code>$ echo $'foo\'bar'</code> <code>foo'bar</code> You can also use ANSI C style quoting. This is not documented in bash’s man page, annoyingly.

$ echo $'foo\'bar'
foo'bar

]]> By: Ryan http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2007/01/30/bash-single-quotes-inside-of-single-quoted-strings/#comment-33455 Ryan Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:38:40 +0000 http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2007/01/30/bash-single-quotes-inside-of-single-quoted-strings/#comment-33455 Thanks for the tip! It worked pefectly! Thanks for the tip! It worked pefectly!

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