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I have the following command for monitoring network interface link status :


It works fine giving me the following output:


Now I want to open a new terminal window with this command so I need to do something like this:

Here I go into troubles because the argument string for the -e switch must be quoted and putting the whole string inside single or double quotes does not work because I already have quotes inside the string. Please, help.

It's actually quite easy.



Just escape the quotation that will "escape" you from the current string.

Best regards
Fredrik Eriksson

Sorry but now I have watch running and giving me:

The working version is this:


I.e. the whole command must be single-quoted and the for statement should not be quoted at all.

Thanks a lot, Fredrik. I thought I need to escape something to solve it but I tried to escape the space after the -d switch instead of the quotes surrounding it.

Regards.

less commands, less troubles.