Re: Inconsistent quote and escape handling in substitution part of parameter expansions.

[Roman Rakus]

On 02/28/2012 05:49 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 05:36:47PM +0100, Roman Rakus wrote:
> > And that means, there isn't way to substitute "something" to ' (single
> > quote) when you want to not perform word splitting. I would consider it
> > as a bug.
> imadev:~$ q=\'
> imadev:~$ input="foosomethingbar"
> imadev:~$ echo "${input//something/$q}"
> foo'bar
I meant without temporary variable.

RR