[gllug] echo

Steve Nelson sanelson at gmail.com
Wed Apr 20 08:47:14 UTC 2005


On 4/20/05, Richard Cohen <vmlinuz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hence why it must be escaped or quoted.  Speaking of which, am I
> > correct in remembering that if one quotes with " ", $ ' and \ retain
> > their meaning, whereas all characters inside a pair of single quotes
> > are assumed to have their literal value?
> 
> That's exactly the sort of thing I can never remember and never really
> be bothered to remember, since 10 seconds testing will answer the
> question :-)

Point well made.  I'll shut up now ;-)

S.
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