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From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
To: Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>, zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Bug related to single-quoting a String
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2020 11:45:55 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1699906240.4127800.1586342755731@mail2.virginmedia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7822f89-5496-48ab-aad4-78b8d27e1229@www.fastmail.com>

> On 08 April 2020 at 11:39 Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st> wrote:
> What I want to report can be a bugh either in the documentaion
> (man-page) or in the implementation, depending on which one is correct.
> 
> I am running Zsh 5.5.1 for Cygwin (which seems to be the most recent one available for this platform).
> 
> In the man-page, it says in the chapter about single-quoting a string:
> 
>     A literal ' character can be included in the string by using the \' escape.
> 
> Taken this at face value, the following should work:
> 
>     echo 'a$b\'c'

I believe you're looking at the documentation for the $'...' style of quoting.  So you can do

echo $'a$b\'c'

This style allows a bit more interpolation than ordinary single quotes.

pws

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-04-08 10:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-08 10:39 Ronald Fischer
2020-04-08 10:45 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2020-04-08 10:52   ` Ronald Fischer
2020-04-08 10:45 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2020-04-08 10:55   ` Ronald Fischer
2020-04-08 11:00     ` Roman Perepelitsa

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