On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 09:03:26AM +0000, [email protected] wrote: > Richard Ulmer writes: > > Hi, > > when there is a single ' in a comment within a subshell, I get this > > error: foo[6]: no closing quote > > > > Here is an example script to reproduce the problem: > > > > foo=$( > > # It's bar: > > echo bar > > ) > > echo $foo > > This is certainly not the best way to do this but it does the job: > > ~/src/ksh [OpenBSD 6.6] > [ksh]flask@void$ /bin/ksh > void$ foo=$( > > # quote: ' > > echo bar > > ) > > ^D I think a better way would be to use UTF-8 single quote, For example codepoint 8217 ”RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK” foo=$( #It’s bar: echo bar ) -- Nils Ola Nilsson, 🐞 email [email protected]
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