[H-GEN] regular expressions

[Bruce Campbell]

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On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Martin Pool wrote:

mbp> On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 09:10:36AM +1000, Jason Henry Parker wrote:
mbp> 
mbp> > I always trap my sed expressions in forward-quotes to hide them
mbp> > completely from the shell.  [ObPeeve:  forward quotes cannot be
mbp> > escaped from bash _at all_.]
mbp> 
mbp> Perhaps I misunderstand you, but
mbp> 
mbp>   $ echo I think jason\'s wrong

$ echo No matter which quotes you use, whether \"double\", \'single\' \
  in either \`direction\`, they can all be \\escaped under bash\(1\) . \
  And you can "do this inside \"another\" string like \'this\' ".

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