Damn, I wish I'd known that yesterday. I spent a good half an hour writing an
testing code to escape special characters.
:/
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 10:06:07AM +0000, kevin lyda wrote:
> '' won't interpolate the string. in other words nothing in the string is magic. "" does interpolate the string. so...
>> export foo=moo
>> $ echo '$foo'
> $foo
> $ echo "$foo"
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