Re: Why no closing single quote is needed when a single quote is escaped?

[Eli Schwartz]

On 12/30/20 11:26 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> x='\'
> The above command works. But the following command doesn't. It doesn't
> make sense to me why the above command should work without closing the
> initial single quote. Could anybody help explain why this syntax
> should be correct? Thanks.
>
> x="\"

The difference between single quoting and double quoting is fully 
explained in the bash manual page, under the section "QUOTING".

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Eli Schwartz
Arch Linux Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

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