Comments on: BASH: Single-quotes inside of single-quoted strings

By: cos

cos — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:12:24 +0000

Thanks, i used it for generating a web page where i had problems with enclosed “”” part. It is also a logic “rule” so, easy to remember

By: mm22

mm22 — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:48:24 +0000

This was exactly what I needed to get my script working the way I expected. Many thanks!
mm22

By: Chris Rodgers » Blog Archive » Escape single quotes in bash

Chris Rodgers » Blog Archive » Escape single quotes in bash — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:52:58 +0000

[...] helpful instructions on Stuart Colville’s blog explain how to do [...]

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:54:35 +0000

Wow! This is exactly the problem I had, and a perfect solution. Great post!

By: Shaun Krislock

Shaun Krislock — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:27:19 +0000

Thanks so much for posting this easy to understand solution

By: bruce

bruce — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:36:15 +0000

thanks. also for bash alias. \’ didn’t work for me. suspect specialized parse around $x variables.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:20:02 +0000

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

Arif — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:25:02 +0000

Worked perfectly! Digging it!

By: Isaac

Isaac — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:48:10 +0000

Bingo! It works! Thanks.
I needed it to use awk inside an alias.

By: Poor Yorick

Poor Yorick — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:44:25 +0000

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