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Howdy, I got a script that adds a esc char before all chars interpeted by bash shell but I wan't other solution. Is there a way to set ' and " as a non quotes type in bash (some local variable)? Have found that scsh is a non-quoting type shell but after reading Why I don't use scsh as a scripting language anymore - Andreas Bernauer's personal blog I
don't wanna use it. Do you have some ideas for bash solution to this problem?

Thanks, Johny

You can use 'tr' to swap them for other characters.

Use a quoted here document. Make sure you quote your identifier or the quotes will still give you problems.

You can tell when you have done it right because you don't have to type Ctrl-D after you type the unquoted identifier at the end.

Code:

# cat input_file.csv
Jim's,,cat,,,flies
Jessie's,,dog,,,climbs
#sed -nf - input_file.csv <<-'TOHERE'
/Jim's/p
TOHERE
Jim's,,cat,,,flies

All this really does is create a sort of on the fly file on standard input.

Yes, << here data is written to a tmpfile() in /tmp/ that is opened as stdin and unlinked (to be deleted at close) after open. I always figured "echo '...'|" was cheaper, but you need to escape any embedded ' to '"'"' (single-double-single-double-single).