On 14 Jun, Greg Wooledge wrote:
[short shell quoting lesson]
> Try this instead:
>
> lame --add-id3v2 --tt "this is the tag"\!
IMHO it's more intuitive to write
"this is the tag\!"
>> On the other hand, this works fine:
>>
>> lame --add-id3v2 --tt 'this is the tag!'
>
> Yes, it does. But double quotes are so much more convenient for enclosing
> tags because contractions occur so often in song titles. There's just
> no good way to deal with it in bash (see above).
General rule:
You have to escape shell special characters in double quotes, but not in
single quotes. Text in single quotes can't contain a single quote, but
everything else works (without escaping).
Bye,
Alexander.
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