[Info-vax] Suggestion: Enhance DCL to support proper escape quoting.

[Bob Eager]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2022 11:59:59 +0100, hb wrote:

>  From bash, if you really want to use double quotes as a string
> delimiter, you need to escape the bash special characters, as they are
> interpreted in that string.
> 
> $ grep "\\\\\"" morehellos.tex Hello w\"orld!
> $
> $ grep "\\\\\\\\" morehellos.tex Hello\\world!
> $
> grep "\"" morehellos.tex Hello w\"orld!
> "Hello world!"

Or just use single quotes to surrouhd the search string. bash won't touch 
anything inside those.

 $ grep '"' whateverfile

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