bash how to echo quotes

In this case, it is essential to put a backslash. Backslash will focus on character followed by a sign with a backslash. The following characters depose functions of the meta tag.

If you want to echo single quotes, you can to:

echo Single quote: \'

Output: Single quote: '

If you want to to echo double quote, you can do:

echo Double quote: \"

Output: Double quote: "

If you want to quote single quote in double quotes:

echo "Single quote in double quotes: '"

Output: Single quote in double quotes: '

If you want to quotes double quotes in double quotes:

echo "Double quote in double quotes \""

Output: Double quote in double quotes "

There is 2 kinds of quoting: weak (") and strong ('). Using weak quoting there is no special meanings of:

• pathname expansion
• process substitution
• single-quotes
• characters for pattern matching

echo  "Path to your shell is: $SHELL"
echo 'Path to your shell is: $SHELL'

Output: Path to your shell is: /bin/bash
Path to your shell is: $SHELL

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