more ' fun!!!
Jun Lu
luj at gus16.ecn.purdue.edu
Thu Mar 14 08:50:58 AEST 1991
In article <1991Mar13.211216.8061 at en.ecn.purdue.edu> nichols at en.ecn.purdue.edu (Scott P Nichols) writes:
>OK, in csh, I want to have this string echo'd... ^[=@'^[H8
>Problem being, I can't get the ' to be echo'd.
>(I am putting this command into a shell script.)
>If I use the command...
>
>echo '=@'H8'
>
>...it thinks the string to be echo'd ends at the second '
>If I use the command...
>
>echo '=@\'H8'
>
>...it sees the \ as a character, thus moving the the wrong
>cursor position (this is a terminal plotting command).
>
>Any ideas?
>
Try
echo "^[=@'^[H8"
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