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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: AWK/shell quoting (was: Re: Access to UNIX-Related Publications)
Message-ID: <1990Jan7.180910.13260@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 7 Jan 90 18:09:10 GMT
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Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
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Someone suggested using \' instead of '.  That won't work; single quoting
takes precedence over backslash escapes, so \ is *ignored* by the shell in
single quotes.  (This is arguably incorrect; were I designing it, I would
choose the escape with the shortest "active time" (e.g. \) as the highest
priority quote, in keeping with the KISS principle.  But it's *far* too late
to change it now.)

++Brandon
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