Re: Shell - escapes
On Tue 10 May 2016 at 13:16:27 (+0000), Mark Fletcher wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 9:20 PM <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> > If you are embedding longer scripts in your shell, consider using
> > "here documents", which are more flexible wrt. embedded quotes.
> > For one-liners, Thomas' solution works nicely.
> >
> Except that it does what the OP clearly said he does NOT want to do -- it
> uses double quotes.
It appears to me that the OP included that condition in order to
persuade us that:
(a) a new quoting mechanism is needed for building perl strings in shell:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/05/msg00403.html
and (b) an old quoting mechanism should be changed:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/05/msg00388.html
You can call me cynical if you wish.
Cheers,
David.
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