NewJokeCity » Sed http://www.newjokecity.com TechNews from the city of NewJoke Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:29:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Escaping single quotes in SED http://www.newjokecity.com/2009/08/escaping-single-quotes-in-sed/ http://www.newjokecity.com/2009/08/escaping-single-quotes-in-sed/#comments Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:50:49 +0000 admin http://www.newjokecity.com/?p=63 If you need to include single quotes inside a single quoted string you might try adding a backslash like most programming languages but that doesn’t work.

In the end the actual “escaping” is: ‘”‘”‘ (five quotes).

To make sure you get it ‘ ” ‘ ” ‘ without the spaces.

To take it apart:

* The first single quote ends the current single quoted string
* The double quote starts a double quoted string
* The second single quote is the one we’re escaping
* And the end of the double quoted string
* And reopening the origional single quoted string

Found on http://laptop006.livejournal.com/43340.html

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