send " ' " (single quote character) via system command?

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Dec 05, 2014, James Flanagan wrote:
>FreeBSD 9.2
>Filepro 5.7.0.03

>I am trying use the sed command to modify a template html file, but the
>single quotes are not being passed properly via the system command.  is
>there a way to send the single character through properly to the system
>command?  thank you very much in advance.
>
>:exists(html_file) eq "0":unix="cat /www/template.html | sed \'s/XXXXX/"{1{"/g\' >"<html_file:
>::msgbox unix:

That script is a good example of the useless use of cat, and
wouldn't work in any case with a < redirect and a pipe.

I would put your sed into a script then call the script avoiding
any quoting issues.

Bill
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