How to escape a single quote in single quote string in Bash?
echo 'I\'m a student'does not work. But the following works:
echo $'I\'m a student'From the man page of bash:
A single quote may not occur between single quotes, even when preceded by a backslash.
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Words of the form $'string' are treated specially. The word expands to string, with backslash-escaped characters replaced as specified by the ANSI C standard.
The "ugly" solution mentioned by Glenn Jackman should actually be listed as a top level answer. It works well and is actually beautiful in some situations.
'I'"'"'m a student'This ends the single quoted string after I then immediately starts a double quoted string containing a single quote and then starts another single quoted string. Bash then concatenates all contiguous strings into one.
Beautiful!