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Asked: 2026-05-27T00:18:07+00:00

I want to display a string in Bash like this: I’m a student Of

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I want to display a string in Bash like this:

I'm a student

Of course you can do it like this:

echo "I'm a student"

But how can I accomplish this while using single quotes around the string?

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  1. Editorial Team
    echo 'I\'m a student'

    does not work. But the following works:

    echo $'I\'m a student'

    From the man page of Bash:

    A single quote may not occur between single quotes, even when preceded
    by a backslash.
    ….
    Words of the form $’string’ are treated specially. The word
    expands to string, with backslash-escaped characters replaced as
    specified by the ANSI C standard.

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