[ILUG] echo $"Why does RedHat do this"?" in init scripts

[Brendan Kehoe]

> Thanks Brian - I did wonder if it were I18n related, but  'man bash'  
> searched for $" only produced this:
>
> extquote
>         If set, $'string' and $"string" quoting is performed within $
> {parameter}
>         expansions  enclosed  in  double  quotes. This option is 
> enabled by default.
>
> I hate incomplete man pages.

It looks like the latest release, bash 3.1, has been updated:

       A double‐quoted string preceded by a dollar sign  ($)  will 
cause  the
       string  to  be translated according to the current locale.  If
the cur‐
       rent locale is C or POSIX, the dollar sign is ignored.  If  the 
string
       is translated and replaced, the replacement is double‐quoted.

 B