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Re: Escape Apostrophes in 'Do Shell Script'

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Re: Escape Apostrophes in 'Do Shell Script'

Subject: Re: Escape Apostrophes in 'Do Shell Script'
From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 07:27:44 +0100

At 11:01 PM -0600 05/11/03, Jay Young wrote:
> Basically, I'm wondering if
>there's a way to escape apostrophes in a 'do shell script' in case a
>word contains an apostrophe itself.

I think that Christopher Nebel is sleeping, so:

---------------------------
quoted form of "What's Up?"
--> "'What'\\''s Up?'"
---------------------------

Emmanuel
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