How to escape single quotes within single quoted strings

Question

Let\'s say, you have a Bash alias like:

alias rxvt=\'urxvt\'

which works fine.

However:

Answer 1

Here is an elaboration on The One True Answer referenced above:

Sometimes I will be downloading using rsync over ssh and have to escape a filename with a ' in it TWICE! (OMG!) Once for bash and once for ssh. The same principle of alternating quotation delimiters is at work here.

For example, let's say we want to get: Louis Theroux's LA Stories ...

1. First you enclose Louis Theroux in single quotes for bash and double quotes for ssh: '"Louis Theroux"'
2. Then you use single quotes to escape a double quote '"'
3. The use double quotes to escape the apostrophe "'"
4. Then repeat #2, using single quotes to escape a double quote '"'
5. Then enclose LA Stories in single quotes for bash and double quotes for ssh: '"LA Stories"'

And behold! You wind up with this:

rsync -ave ssh '"Louis Theroux"''"'"'"'"''"s LA Stories"'

which is an awful lot of work for one little ' -- but there you go