Re: [Nmh-workers] proposed patch for shell metacharacter failure in nmh-1.7

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi David,

> I'm not sure there's a good way to fix this.  Maybe this?
>
>    'SEAO - Résultats d'"'"'ouverture (002).pdf'

I realise there's a lot more conversation that occurred on this, but the
idiom to write a ' within a '-quoted string is to exit it, escape a
quote with backslash, and then re-enter.

    echo 'foo'\''bar'

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Cheers, Ralph.
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