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Is there a way to escape single-quotes in the shell?
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E. g. I want to say Is there a less awkward way to do it, e. g. escaping single-quotes? Yes, I know that I can write But this question is about quoting in the shell, not in the Perl. I'm interested how to do it in and in the first place.
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perl -e 'print '"'"'Hello, world!'"'"', "\n";'
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Dennis points out the usual alternatives in his answer (single-in-double, double-in-single, single quoted strings concatenated with escaped single quotes; you already mentioned Perl's customizable quote operators), but maybe this is the direct answe…
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