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

[Roman Rakus]

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