12-28-2007
Need help to escape special characters in Korn shell script
Hi,
I would like to display the following message from my shell (Korn) script
Copy "old_file.txt" to "new_file.txt"
My code looks as follows
print "Copy "old_file.txt" to "new_file.txt""
However, when I execute the script, I get the following output
Copy old_file.txt to new_file.txt
Can somebody please help me with the syntax to escape the double quotes (") ?
Thanks in advance.
rogers42
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SHCOMP(1) Korn shell utilities SHCOMP(1)
NAME
shcomp - compile a shell script
SYNOPSIS
shcomp [ options ] [infile [outfile]]
DESCRIPTION
Unless -D is specified, shcomp takes a shell script, infile, and creates a binary format file, outfile, that ksh can read and execute with
the same effect as the original script.
Since aliases are processed as the script is read, alias definitions whose value requires variable expansion will not work correctly.
If -D is specified, all double quoted strings that are preceded by $ are output. These are the messages that need to be translated to
locale specific versions for internationalization.
If outfile is omitted, then the results will be written to standard output. If infile is also omitted, the shell script will be read from
standard input.
OPTIONS
[D dictionary] Generate a list of strings that need to be placed in a message catalog for internationalization. [n noexec] Displays warn-
ing messages for obsolete or non-conforming constructs. [v verbose] Displays input from infile onto standard error as it reads it.
EXIT STATUS
0
Successful completion.
>0
An error occurred.
SEE ALSO
ksh(1)
IMPLEMENTATION
version
shcomp (AT&T Research) 2003-03-02
author
David Korn <dgk@research.att.com>
copyright
Copyright (c) 1982-2010 AT&T Intellectual Property
license
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/cpl1.0.txt
2003-03-02 SHCOMP(1)