Hi, Die Optimisten wrote: > > How can I escape a ' inside '...' > > e.g. perl -e 'print '$ and a' '
Mark Fletcher wrote: > perl -e 'print '\''$ and a'\'' ' Or by ending the range of ' and packing the literal ' into double quotes: perl -e 'print '"'"'$ and a'"'"' ' consisting of these quotation pieces 'print ' "'" '$ and a' "'" ' ' If there was no $ in the text, one could do it more simply by packing the whole text into double quotes: perl -e "print '$ and a' " Have a nice day :) Thomas