The command 's/'\''/'\''\'\'\''/g' only triples single quotes: $ echo "What's up?" | sed 's/'\''/'\''\'\'\''/g' What'''s up? This doesn't hurt as compared to a single single quote it only adds an empty string, but it makes the script needlessly complicated and hard to understand. The useful quoting is done by s/'\''/'\''\\'\'\''/g at the beginning of the script and only once for all three variables. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-KÃnig <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- git-sh-setup.sh | 3 --- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/git-sh-setup.sh b/git-sh-setup.sh index 6131670..8d54b73 100644 --- a/git-sh-setup.sh +++ b/git-sh-setup.sh @@ -151,17 +151,14 @@ get_author_ident_from_commit () { s/'\''/'\''\\'\'\''/g h s/^author \([^<]*\) <[^>]*> .*$/\1/ - s/'\''/'\''\'\'\''/g s/.*/GIT_AUTHOR_NAME='\''&'\''/p g s/^author [^<]* <\([^>]*\)> .*$/\1/ - s/'\''/'\''\'\'\''/g s/.*/GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL='\''&'\''/p g s/^author [^<]* <[^>]*> \(.*\)$/\1/ - s/'\''/'\''\'\'\''/g s/.*/GIT_AUTHOR_DATE='\''&'\''/p q -- 1.7.2.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html