Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> writes:
> $'...' is a form of quoting, not an expansion. It won't "work" inside
> of another type of quoting, just like '...' will not "work" inside "...".
Yes, that's true, and makes sense when I think about it. But the
manual page doesn't consistently phrase it that way:
Words of the form $'string' are treated specially. The word expands to
string, ...
As you say, it isn't "expand". And, being a quote construct, it's not a
word per se, it prevents contained characters from breaking words.
On the flip side, it doesn't look like there's a consistent word for
"the effective value of a quote construct", although "quote removal" is
used in some places.
Dale
