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To: Dave Yost <Dave@Yost.com>
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Subject: Re: there should be a way to echo with quotes or escaping
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From: Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>
Date: 23 Mar 2005 17:25:01 -0800
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Dave Yost <Dave@Yost.com> writes:

> Z% echo "abc def"
> abc def
> Z% echoquoted "abc def"
> 'abc def'
> Z% echoescaped "abc def"
> abc\ def
> Z%
> 
> or some such
> 
> If there is such a feature, I didn't see it mentioned under the echo
> command in the man page.

% a="foo' bar"
% echo ${(q)a}
foo\'\ bar
% echo ${(qq)a}
'foo'' bar'
% echo ${(qqq)a}
"foo' bar"

Note that I have rc_quotes set, otherwise:

% echo ${(qq)a}
'foo'\'' bar'

Phil.