Quoting conventions (was: Re: How to show a script without comments?)

[Joel Roth]

Joel Roth wrote:
> Okay, this does work. Elegant, don't you think?
> 
> cat test.txt | perl -nlE 's/#[^'"'"'"]*$//g; say unless /^\s*$/'

'"'"' is not the only way to express a single quote in bash.

echo ''\''' 

also prints '

People criticize perl for being hard to read, but it does
have several quoting conventions that help avoid these weird bashisms.

say q(') # prints '

Cheers,

-- 
Joel Roth