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?
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.