description of single quoting behaviour seems wrong

[wbolster]

the document currently contains:

The simplest is to go for single quotes, since these have the simplest escaping rules – only one: ' → '\''.

this seems incorrect. backslashes do not escape anything inside single quotes::

\

that also means that this is an incomplete command, as can be seen from the continuation prompt:

$ echo '\''
> 
> ^C

the correct approach is to replace ' with '"'"' which looks horrible, but is correct:

• ' closes the open single-quoted string
• " opens a double-quoted string
• ' puts a single quote inside the double-quoted string
• " closes the double-quoted string
• ' opens a new single-quoted string

[anordal]

You have to actually quote the string as well. Example:

echo 'Don'\''t stop (12" dub mix).mp3'

So I'm actually proposing the same as you, exept using '\'' instead of '"'"'. Agree?

I guess I should have added an example. Any other way I could make it clearer?

[wbolster]

aaaah, now i see.

somehow i totally missed the single quotes in the replacement string while reading this. sorry about that.

i guess an example would help, yeah.