Re: A Tricky quoting problem

From: rakesh sharma (sharma__r_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/30/04 

Date: 30 May 2004 04:55:56 -0700

"Alon" <noSpam@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:

>
> I Have a quoting problem that I can't solve.
> I need to make double quote inside single quote inside double quotes.

  ..[snip]...

> The following does not work:
> alias catXML "cat \!* | sed -e 's/[ ]*["][ ]*/ABC/g' "
>
> I want that eventually:
> catXML= cat \!* | sed -e 's/[ ]*["][ ]*/ABC/g'
>
> How do I do that?
>

  alias catXML 'cat \!* | sed -e '\''s/[ ]*["][ ]*/ABC/g'\''

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