You can always take advantage of what I believe is the portable property of consecutive strings (without space) being concatenated together. Then you never need

You can always take advantage of what I believe is the portable property of consecutive strings (without space) being concatenated together. Then you never need to escape anything in your scripts. For instance, to produce a double quote inside single quotes, you can do this echo "'"'"'"'" That's three quoted strings next to each other that produce '"'