Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> writes: > $'...' is a form of quoting, not an expansion. It won't "work" inside > of another type of quoting, just like '...' will not "work" inside "...".
Yes, that's true, and makes sense when I think about it. But the manual page doesn't consistently phrase it that way: Words of the form $'string' are treated specially. The word expands to string, ... As you say, it isn't "expand". And, being a quote construct, it's not a word per se, it prevents contained characters from breaking words. On the flip side, it doesn't look like there's a consistent word for "the effective value of a quote construct", although "quote removal" is used in some places. Dale