Re: Shell - escapes

Mark Fletcher writes: > On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 9:20 PM wrote: > > If you are embedding longer scripts in your shell, consider using > "here documents", which are more flexible wrt. embedded quotes. > For one-liners, Thomas' solution works

Re: Shell - escapes

On 05/10/2016 06:36 AM, Andy Smith wrote: perl -e 'print q{$ and a} ' +1 David

Re: Shell - escapes

Hi, i wrote: > > So this is not a way to express arbitrary literal text. David Wright wrote: > $ wc -c <<"x" Indeed. One more way to reach the goal. At least with bash and dash. Have a nice day :) Thomas

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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 04:19:10PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Regrettably, Here Documents let the shell fiddle with their text. > > $ wc -c < $(echo hello) > x > 6 > > So this is not a way to express arbitrary literal text. Not if you

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On Tue 10 May 2016 at 16:19:10 (+0200), Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Regrettably, Here Documents let the shell fiddle with their text. > > $ wc -c < $(echo hello) > x > 6 > > So this is not a way to express arbitrary literal text. $ wc -c <<"x" $(echo hello) x 14 $ Cheers, David.

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Hi, > I think it would be useful to have a (new, meta) quote, which fully hides > contents from bash-interpretion The '' quote does this. It's simply impossible that an end quotation mark can be distinguished from a literal quotation mark. If there would be escaping of literal string end marks,

Re: Shell - escapes

On Tue 10 May 2016 at 13:16:27 (+), Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 9:20 PM wrote: > > If you are embedding longer scripts in your shell, consider using > > "here documents", which are more flexible wrt. embedded quotes. > > For one-liners, Thomas' solution

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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 01:36:22PM +, 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

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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

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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 01:14:57PM +, Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 9:20 PM wrote: > > > > > If you are embedding longer scripts in your shell, consider using > > "here documents", which are more flexible wrt.

Re: Shell - escapes

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 9:20 PM wrote: > > If you are embedding longer scripts in your shell, consider using > "here documents", which are more flexible wrt. embedded quotes. > For one-liners, Thomas' solution works nicely. > > Except that it does what the OP clearly said he

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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 01:54:35PM +0200, Die Optimisten wrote: > > If there was no $ in the text, one could do it more simply by > packing the whole text into double quotes: > perl -e "print '$ and a' " > > Have a nice day :) Thomas > > That's why I

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> If there was no $ in the text, one could do it more simply by packing the whole text into double quotes: perl -e "print '$ and a' " > Have a nice day :) Thomas That's why I constructed that example :) I think it would be useful to have a (new, meta) quote, which fully hides contents from

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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 01:08:04PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >perl -e 'print '"'"'$ and a'"'"' '# I don't want to use " > > You were faster than me. :)) > > > > I.e. just use the '' where you need 'em

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Hi, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >perl -e 'print '"'"'$ and a'"'"' '# I don't want to use " You were faster than me. :)) > I.e. just use the '' where you need 'em I actually do it vice versa: If purely literal text is intended, i use '' where possible and escape only '. That's most safe

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Hi, Die Optimisten wrote: > > How can I escape a ' inside '...' > > e.g. perl -e 'print '$ and a' ' Mark Fletcher wrote: > perl -e 'print '\''$ and a'\'' ' Or by ending the range of ' and packing the literal ' into double quotes: perl -e 'print '"'"'$ and a'"'"' ' consisting of these

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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:

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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 11:20:23AM +0200, Die Optimisten wrote: > On 2016-05-10 11:18, Die Optimisten wrote: > >Hi, > > > >How can I escape a ' inside '...' > >e.g. perl -e 'print '$ and a' '# I don't want to use " The short answer is... you

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'...' doesn't interpolate. push @f, '$ and a'; push @f, "'"; print join '', @f; If you want. I have a feeling YDIW and need to step back and present the actual problem. On May 10, 2016 05:36, "Die Optimisten" wrote: > Hi, > > How can I escape a ' inside '...' > e.g.

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On Tue, 10 May 2016 at 18:36, Die Optimisten wrote: > Hi, > > How can I escape a ' inside '...' > e.g. perl -e 'print '$ and a' '# I don't want to use " > > thank you > Andrew > > perl -e 'print '\''$ and a'\'' ' The things that might look like double quotes in

Shell - escapes

Hi, How can I escape a ' inside '...' e.g. perl -e 'print '$ and a' '# I don't want to use " thank you Andrew

bash Shell - escapes

On 2016-05-10 11:18, Die Optimisten wrote: Hi, How can I escape a ' inside '...' e.g. perl -e 'print '$ and a' '# I don't want to use " thank you Andrew I have to add, its bash - specific and PLEASE also CC: me using inform (AT) die-optimisten.net I'm not subscribed here THANKs