bash Shell - escapes

[Die Optimisten <inform@die-optimisten.net>]

On 2016-05-10 11:18, Die Optimisten wrote:

Hi,

How can I escape a ' inside '...'
e.g. perl -e 'print '$ and a' '    # I don't want to use "

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Andrew

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