Damien Nadé wrote:
I've tried to insert a single quote into a variable content.
With something like this :
bash-3.2$ foo=bar
bash-3.2$ echo "${foo/%/'}"
>
If you look at that, you understand that > is the $PS2, so it means that
bash is interpreting the single quote a special char.
So, naturally, I've told myself : "just escape it". And I've tried
that :
bash-3.2$ foo=bar
bash-3.2$ echo "${foo/%/\'}"
bar\'
But... what the hell ? The backslash belongs to the variable now ?
So, I cant use it "as is", and if I escape it, the command doesnt do
what I want anymore..
Is that some kind of bug in the parser ?
Hmm... that seems to be a good question. Meanwhile, you can do this:
$ foo=bar
$ q="'"
$ echo "${foo/%/$q}"
bar'
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