[Linux-disciples] echo

[Chung-chieh Shan]

On 2006-01-10T10:58:51-0500, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> Is it just me, or is this odd?
> 
> (10:57) slaniel at TheloniousMonk:~$ echo "some \"stuff\""
> some "stuff"
> (10:57) slaniel at TheloniousMonk:~$ echo 'some \'stuff\''
> >
> 
> Shouldn't the quoting behavior be identical? I would think
> the shell would do a first pass over either line, strip off
> the single quotes, convert the escaped inner quotes into
> literal quotes, and echo. No?

info bash:

3.1.2.2 Single Quotes
.....................

Enclosing characters in single quotes (`'') preserves the literal value
of each character within the quotes.  A single quote may not occur
between single quotes, even when preceded by a backslash.

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