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

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at spamcop.net>

> Any *nix command which takes its input from stdin can use a
> file-redirect rather than a pipe. (And stdout as well.)

That is true... *but*:

Since the redirects (generally) go after*, it's sometimes harder to work
out quoting and other related things without getting confused, and...

well, I had another reason, but I'm pushing 50.  :-)

Cheers,
-- jr 'lawn.  Get off.' a

* I fully realize, yes, that:

<sourcefile sed -e blah 

is valid in some contexts in some shells, but so far as I know they are 
now vanishingly rare, if in fact they still exist at all.  Please change
the subject line if you want to discuss the side issue. :-)  
-- 
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