Re: Shell - escapes

[Frédéric Marchal]

On Tuesday 10 May 2016 11:18:06 Die Optimisten wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> How can I escape a ' inside '...'
> e.g. perl -e 'print '$ and a' '    # I don't want to use "

This seems to work:

    perl -e 'print '\''$ and a'\'

It must be understood as the concatenation of these strings:

* literal string: 'print '
* escaped \'
* literal string: '$ and a'
* escaped \'

Frederic