Quotes within quotes within quotes in bash. :)

[Stuart Jansen]

On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 09:31 -0600, paul at seamons.com wrote:
> perl -e 'print "How'"'"'re you?\n"'
> 
> To paraphrase, we have a close single quote followed by an open double quote - 
> then the single quote, a close double quote followed by another open single 
> quote.  Clear as mud.

I can't decide if that's evil or genius. Probably both.

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