Re: Inconsistent quote and escape handling in substitution part of parameter expansions.

[Roman Rakus]

On 02/28/2012 05:49 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 05:36:47PM +0100, Roman Rakus wrote:

And that means, there isn't way to substitute "something" to ' (single
quote) when you want to not perform word splitting. I would consider it
as a bug.

imadev:~$ q=\'
imadev:~$ input="foosomethingbar"
imadev:~$ echo "${input//something/$q}"
foo'bar

I meant without temporary variable.

RR