Re: how to escape single quote?

[Mart Frauenlob]

On 29.12.2010 08:28, ali hagigat wrote:
> I wonder if anybody knows how to escape a single quote character by
> /bin/sh or bash?
> echo 'ppp\'qqq''
> ppp\qqq
> Please look at the above example and the result.
> Regards
from man bash:

Enclosing  characters  in  single  quotes  preserves  the  literal value 
of each character within the quotes.
A single quote may not occur between single quotes, even when preceded 
by a backslash.