[H-GEN] regular expressions

[Byron Ellacott]

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On 22 Aug 2000, Jason Henry Parker wrote:

[on single quotes and bash]
> only to find I can't do it.  It's incredibly annoying, but usually a
> sign that the script needed to be a script and not a one-liner anyway.

Personally, I'm happy to have the current behaviour of bash - *anything*
in single quotes, bar a single quote, is taken literally.  This means
there are no special cases, which makes it easier to deal with.

echo 'You'\''re right about it being a pain sometimes.'

-- 
bje


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