Greg Wooledge 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:
On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 09:11:48PM -0400, Dale R. Worley wrote:
> I have it encoded in my head that $ inside "..." is respected. Subtly,
> the $'...' construction is not respected inside "...".
Bash has 5 types of quoting: '...', "...", $'...', $"..." and backslash.
$'...' is a form of quoting,
I have it encoded in my head that $ inside "..." is respected. Subtly,
the $'...' construction is not respected inside "...". After reading
the manual page carefully, I realized this is because the interpretation
of $'...' is not part of parameter expansion (despite its $) but rather
it is a
