Greg Wooledge wrote: > From an older bash(1) manual: > > Words of the form $'string' are treated specially. The word expands to > string, with backslash-escaped characters replaced as specifed by the > ANSI C standard. > > Bash 4 manual: > > Words of the form $string are treated specially. The word expands to > string, with backslash-escaped characters replaced as specified by the > ANSI C standard. > > Oops... looks like the single quotes vanished somewhere along the way > there.
They are present in the source and render correctly in doc/bash.0, the preformatted copy of the manual page in the distribution. Your nroff/ troff probably doesn't understand the \(aq escape sequence. I changed it because groff, when running in a UTF-8 locale, doesn't render literal single quotes as desired (it turns them into "right single quotation mark" rather than "apostrophe"). Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
