Re: Inconsistent quote and escape handling in substitution part of parameter expansions.

[Roman Rakus]

On 02/28/2012 05:10 PM, John Kearney wrote:
wrap it with single quotes and globally replace all single quotes in the
string with '\''
single quote and slash have special meaning so they have to be escaped, 
that's it.
\'${var//\'/\\\'}\'
it is not quoted, so it undergoes word splitting. To avoid it quote it 
in double quotes, however it changes how slash and single quote is treated.
"'${var//\'/\'}'"
Wasn't it already discussed on the list?

RR