Uwe Kleine-KÃnig <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. Interesting. I think this was an ancient misconversion that dates back to June 2005 ;-) Thanks. -- 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