On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 12:44 PM, ali hagigat <hagigat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dennis, > > Nice. Much appreciated > What logic is it using you think when we use echo 'ppp'\''qqq'? > The logic is: 1) you need to close the quotes with ' 2) concatenate a single quotes using another form of quoting for instance: \' but "'" also works 3) then you reopen the single quote for the rest of your string ' It's not a form of quoting is 3 parts put together 'A' and \' and 'B' Why echo 'ppp\'qqq' is not OK? It can not escape single quote by \ ! because \ is not special inside single quotes
