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Re: how does escaping in "`...`" work?
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Eric Blake |
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Re: how does escaping in "`...`" work? |
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Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:23:57 -0600 |
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On 06/07/2010 04:47 PM, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> But this does not:
> $ echo "`echo \"you don\'t say\"`"
> you don\'t say
\' is not special inside ``. If it is not special, then the \ is
preserved on to the nested command. Bash's behavior matches POSIX here.
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> I expected:
> "you don't say"
Then don't use \'. echo "`echo \"you don't say\"`"
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> That is, I expected that \" -> " substitution would not happen inside
> the ``'s outside of the context of the command substitution, since the
> quotes do not need to be escaped in that context to be seen as quotes in
> the substitution context.
The quotes NEED to be escaped in the quoted command substitution
context, since behavior is undefined if " quotes are not escaped inside
"``".
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