On Sat, Dec 21, 2024 at 09:56:15 -0800, Eric Pruitt wrote: > On Sun, Dec 22, 2024 at 12:49:07AM +0700, Budi wrote: > > How is Bash' code to store string of any characters should be containing > > pair of "" and '' at the same time explicitly, being exact verbatim so, > > ie. cannot be modified, escaped or etc, as expected from ordinary/naive > > human writing), into a variable > > You need to escape one of the types of quotes. Double quotes is > generally simpler: > > $ x="foo \"foo\" and 'bar' content" > $ echo "$x" > foo "foo" and 'bar' content
Only in this restricted case. Using double quotes as the outer layer means you have to backslash-escape *lots* of other characters inside the payload: double quotes, dollar signs, backticks, and backslashes at the very minimum. > Since you can't "\" escape inside of single quotes, you would end up > with something more convoluted, like: > > $ x='foo "foo" and '"'"'bar'"'"' content' '\'' is normally used, but '"'"' is also correct.
