Tim Chase writes: > This doesn't jibe with the pairs of quotes you sent and your request > for nesting. In most popular shells, the majority of your "quote" > characters don't actually quote anything: > > bash$ echo // hello > hello
Where did the // go? [...] > and has problems with things like > > someprog.py uname && su""do cat /etc/sudoers > someprog.py uname && s"ud"o cat /etc/sudoers > > which my shell will parse valid execution of sudo. This one looks like "scare quotes": $ "sudo" cat /etc/sudoers (Sorry for the noise. I just find this amusing.) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list