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aidenn0 on Dec 8, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Imagine a world where Bash supports JSON.

This violates my number one rule of shell scripting:

Don't use symmetrical quotes

harbud on Dec 8, 2011 [–]

So you never use 'single' and "double" quotes?

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