[Linux-disciples] echo

[Chung-chieh Shan]

On 2006-01-10T13:28:23-0500, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> 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?

I'm not sure what you mean by "why".  Are you looking for a design
rationale, an implementation method, or something else?

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