How to remove extra indentation of Python triple quoted multi-line strings?
textwrap.dedent from the standard library is there to automatically undo the wacky indentation.
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Escaping Double Quotes in Batch Script
The escape character in batch scripts is ^. But for double-quoted strings, double up the quotes: “string with an embedded “” character”
bash alias command with both single and double quotes
You just need to escape it correctly. alias xxx=”svn status | awk ‘\$1 ==\”M\”{print \$2;}'”
I get “dquote>” as a result of executing a program in linux shell
It means you’ve executed a line of code with only one double-quote character, like this: echo “Hello The shell is waiting for the other quote.
How to escape single quotes in MySQL
Put quite simply: SELECT ‘This is Ashok”s Pen.’; So inside the string, replace each single quote with two of them. Or: SELECT ‘This is Ashok\’s Pen.’ Escape it =)
How to keep quotes in Bash arguments? [duplicate]
using “$@” will substitute the arguments as a list, without re-splitting them on whitespace (they were split once when the shell script was invoked), which is generally exactly what you want if you just want to re-pass the arguments to another program. Note that this is a special form and is only recognized as such … Read more
What are ‘$$’ used for in PL/pgSQL
These dollar signs ($$) are used for dollar quoting, which is in no way specific to function definitions. It can be used to replace single quotes enclosing string literals (constants) anywhere in SQL scripts. The body of a function happens to be such a string literal. Dollar-quoting is a PostgreSQL-specific substitute for single quotes to … Read more
How to enter quotes in a Java string?
In Java, you can escape quotes with \: String value = ” \”ROM\” “;
How to use an environment variable inside a quoted string in Bash
Just a quick note/summary for any who came here via Google looking for the answer to the general question asked in the title (as I was). Any of the following should work for getting access to shell variables inside quotes: echo “$VARIABLE” echo “${VARIABLE}” Use of single quotes is the main issue. According to the … Read more
When to wrap quotes around a shell variable?
General rule: quote it if it can either be empty or contain spaces (or any whitespace really) or special characters (wildcards). Not quoting strings with spaces often leads to the shell breaking apart a single argument into many. $? doesn’t need quotes since it’s a numeric value. Whether $URL needs it depends on what you … Read more