Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:12:48 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, kline@tao.thought.org Subject: Re: perl substitution question Message-ID: <200701151712.l0FHCmEL085537@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <20070114214410.GB24039@thought.org>
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Gary Kline wrote:
> Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > Watch out for shells with funny 'expansion rules', like csh(1) :)
> > [...]
>
> Man! truer words, (&c)... . One o the very few suggestions
> left for improving shells [ and/or subshells ] is a flag,
> say '-N' which would have *nothing* to be escaped. In other
> words a '$' or '"' would be interpreted literally.
Everything between single quotes (') is taken literally
and does not need to be escaped. Except for the single
quote character itself, obviously, but that's not a big
deal anyway.
Best regards
Oliver
PS: I'm talking about standard bourne shell, of course
(a.k.a. /bin/sh, zsh, ksh or bash). I recommend against
using csh or tcsh.
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