Quotes within quotes within quotes in bash. :)

[Kimball Larsen]

sorry, I should have clarified:


On Jun 23, 2006, at 3:52 PM, Nicholas Leippe wrote:

> On Friday 23 June 2006 15:42, Kimball Larsen wrote:
>> Then you get quotes within quotes within
>> quotes - which bash disallows.
>
> How is it disallowed?  As long as the data is properly escaped/ 
> encoded, you
> should be able to pass anything.
>
> echo "\"a\""
> sh -c  "echo \"\\\"a\\\"\""
> sh -c "sh -c  \"echo \\\"\\\\\\\"a\\\\\\\"\\\"\""
>



sorry, I should have clarified:

if I want an " 'a' " as the output:

echo ' " ' a ' " '   =>  "  a  "

echo ' " \' a \' " '  => wants more input.

What I meant was single quotes within double quotes within single  
quotes.

-- Kimball