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

[Roman Rakus]

On 02/28/2012 05:22 PM, Roman Rakus wrote:
> On 02/28/2012 05:10 PM, John Kearney wrote:
> > wrap it with single quotes and globally replace all single quotes in the
> > string with '\''
> single quote and slash have special meaning so they have to be 
> escaped, that's it.
> \'${var//\'/\\\'}\'
> it is not quoted, so it undergoes word splitting. To avoid it quote it 
> in double quotes, however it changes how slash and single quote is 
> treated.
> "'${var//\'/\'}'"
>
> Wasn't it already discussed on the list?
>
> RR
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.

RR