In shell scripting if text is surrounded by single quotes
what does it denotes?
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Answer / anushre
it means there is no command substitution or shell
interpretation inside the quoted text
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Answer / guest
All characters enclosed between a pair of single quote
marks(''), except a single quote, are quoted by the
shell. Backslash has no special meaning inside a pair of
single quotes.
'\n' "\n"
Inside double quote command substitution and filename
generation takes place
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Answer / satchi
'Single Quote' preserves all special characters within
STRING. like when we use \a \b \t inside the string in
shell script.
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