How can I escape a double quote inside double quotes?

Question

How can I escape double quotes inside a double string in Bash?

For example, in my shell script

#!/bin/bash

dbload=\"load data local infile \\\"\'gfp         


        

Answer 1

Check out printf...

#!/bin/bash
mystr="say \"hi\""

Without using printf

echo -e $mystr

Output: say "hi"

Using printf

echo -e $(printf '%q' $mystr)

Output: say \"hi\"