quotes

I recently ran a command in windows cmd with single quotes in it and found that it did not behave as I expected. From trying to google "windows batch single quote vs double quote" I've found a few articles where people asked about having windows treat single quotes like double quotes, and about how bash treats single quotes and double quotes differently. However, I couldn't easily find an explicit explanation of what single quotes do in windows batch commands. So what do single quotes do in windows batch files? Do they perform any sort of quoting functionality at all? Single quotes are not

How do I insert a value in MySQL that consist of single or double quotes. i.e This is Ashok's Pen. The single quote will create problems. There might be other escape characters. How do you insert the data properly? 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 =) See my answer to "How to escape characters in MySQL" Whatever library you are using to talk to MySQL will have an escaping function built in, e.g. in PHP you could use mysqli_real_escape_string or PDO::quote Rashmi Pandit

Seems that the recommended way of doing indirect variable setting in bash is to use eval : var=x; val=foo eval $var=$val echo $x # --> foo The problem is the usual one with eval : var=x; val=1$'\n'pwd eval $var=$val # bad output here (and since it is recommended in many places, I wonder just how many scripts are vulnerable because of this...) In any case, the obvious solution of using (escaped) quotes doesn't really work: var=x; val=1\"$'\n'pwd\" eval $var=\"$val\" # fail with the above The thing is that bash has indirect variable reference baked in (with ${!foo} ), but I don't see any such

How do you run the following command in PowerShell? C:\Program Files\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy\msdeploy.exe -verb:sync -source:dbfullsql="Data Source=mysource;Integrated Security=false;User ID=sa;Pwd=sapass!;Database=mydb;" -dest:dbfullsql="Data Source=.\mydestsource;Integrated Security=false;User ID=sa;Pwd=sapass!;Database=mydb;",computername=10.10.10.10,username=administrator,password=adminpass" Keith Hill When PowerShell sees a command starting with a string it just evaluates the string, that is, it typically echos it to the screen, for example: PS> "Hello World" Hello World If you want

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. I found this at somebody's blog, and it introduces as Rick Osborne's. But I google this, and other people says: Martin Golding's, John Woods' and Damian Conway's... Yes, Damian Conway used this quote in " Perl Best Practices " (2005) but Damian doesn't mention who wrote it. Does anybody know who the real author of this aphorism is? I thought ChrisW's research was right, and I tried to confirm it by doing the same thing. I found John Woods' name in 1991 in this thread: Usage of