On Tuesday, February 28, 2012 06:38:22 PM John Kearney wrote: > On 02/28/2012 06:31 PM, Dan Douglas wrote: > > On Tuesday, February 28, 2012 05:53:32 PM Roman Rakus wrote: > >> On 02/28/2012 05:49 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > >>> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 05:36:47PM +0100, Roman Rakus wrote: > >>>> And that means, there isn't way to substitute "something" to > >>>> ' (single quote) when you want to not perform word splitting. > >>>> I would consider it as a bug. > >>> > >>> imadev:~$ q=\' imadev:~$ input="foosomethingbar" imadev:~$ echo > >>> "${input//something/$q}" foo'bar > >> > >> I meant without temporary variable. > >> > >> RR > > > > ormaaj@ormaajbox ~ $ ( x=abc; echo ${x/b/$'\''} ) a'c > > ( x=abc; echo "${x/b/$'\''}" ) > -bash: bad substitution: no closing `}' in "${x/b/'}" > > > you forgot the double quotes ;) > > > I really did spend like an hour or 2 one day trying to figure it out > and gave up.
Hm good catch. Thought there might be a new quoting context over there. -- Dan Douglas