On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 05:05:26PM -0600, Dan Muey wrote:
> perl -e 'print "joe's mama";'
> Obvo=iously won't work
> perl -e 'print "joe\'s mama";'
> And any other versions of \\' all fail.
As you were told, this is a question of your shell. If you are
using a bourne shell (zsh, bash, ksh, etc...) try this:
perl -e 'print "joe'\''s mama";'
^ ^ ^^ ^
1 2 34 5
The trick is:
1. start single quoted string
2. end single quoted string
3. escaped single quote
4. start single quoted string
5. end single quoted string
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