On Feb 28, 2005, at 16:05, Kevin Ballard wrote: > 'Don'\''t'? Sheesh. Why not use $'Don\'t'? On Bash, $'' quoting lets > you use escapes in the string. I find it very handy when I want to > write a message with a single quote in it. The thing is not a custom string, it's a user text that needs escaping. So for this '...' is nice.