Can't escape single quotes in shell
- by user13743
I'm trying to make a command to do a perl substitution on a batch of php files in a directory. The string I want to replace has single quotes in it, and I can't get it to properly escape the in shell.
I tried echoing the string with unescaped quotes, to see what perl would be getting:
echo 's/require_once('include.constants.php');/require_once('include.constants.php');require_once("./functions/include.session.inc.php");/g'
and it doesn't have the single-quotes in the result:
s/require_once\(include.constants.php\);/require_once\(include.constants.php\);require_once\("\./functions/include\.session\.inc\.php"\);/g
However, when I try to escape the single quotes:
echo 's/require_once\(\'include\.constants\.php\'\);/require_once\(\'include\.constants\.php\'\);require_once\("\./functions/include\.session\.inc\.php"\);/g'
I get the prompt to complete the command:
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What I want it to parse to is this:
What am I doing wrong?
s/require_once\('include.constants.php'\);/require_once\('include.constants.php'\);require_once\("\./functions/include\.session\.inc\.php"\);/g
