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From: dfoster@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Derek R. Foster)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: how to echo the '
Keywords: metachar, escape char
Message-ID: <11313@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 20 Mar 91 04:56:17 GMT
References: <3841@gmuvax2.gmu.edu>
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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Someone whose name seems to have gotten lost wrote:
>	OK, in csh, I want to have this string echo'd...     ^[=@'^[H8
>	Problem being, I can't get the ' to be echo'd.
>	(I am putting this command into a shell script.)
>	If I use the command...
>
>	echo '=@'H8'
>
>	...it thinks the string to be echo'd ends at the second '
>	If I use the command...
>	echo '=@\'H8'
>
>	...it sees the \ as a character
>

To echo a string like   abc'def
  use the format
  echo 'abc'\''def'

This is read as:
  a string, 'abc'
  an escaped quote character, \' which will not be interpreted like a
  normal quote character by the shell,
  another string, 'def'

In your case, this becomes:
  echo '=@'\''H8'

I hope this helps!

Derek Riippa Foster