-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 01:36:22PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 11:18:06AM +0200, Die Optimisten wrote: > > How can I escape a ' inside '...' > > e.g. perl -e 'print '$ and a' ' # I don't want to use " > > You can't, so if it were me I would use one of perl's alternatives > for single-quoted strings, such as: > > perl -e 'print q{$ and a} ' > > http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#Quote-and-Quote-like-Operators
"There Is More Than a Way To Do It" :-) By the way, this is recommended reading (back to the shell and especially bash): http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/ Enjoy - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlcx538ACgkQBcgs9XrR2ka7GgCfd2N8PaoE2ng7i4hPuASpH+up /6IAmwSHaxmQVI9f9s3DhJAmARPHoPVw =k8A/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----