[Linux-disciples] echo

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 11:57:12AM -0500, Chung-chieh Shan wrote:
> 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.

Odd. Any idea why that would be true of single quotes and
not of double quotes?

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