SPUG: Re: Software to expand contractions?

Jeremy Mates jmates at sial.org
Mon Oct 27 11:22:37 CST 2003


* Cantrall, Christopher W <christopher.w.cantrall at BOEING.COM>
> BTW, for some reason I can't seem to get this to work as a one-liner,
> but I think that's because my shell-fu is weak. If you're morbidly
> curious:
> 
> cwc9144 at esg2776:<45> perl -wln -e'/\b(\w+\'\w+)\b/; print "$1" if $1;' file
> /usr/bin/ksh: 0403-057 Syntax error: `)' is not expected.

To quote ' inside '' in the shell requires the following:

echo 'cats'
echo 'cat'\''s'




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