I know a fair bit about escape characters in BASH. I know that \ will escape the next character,   will escape all characters except for $ and , and finally ' ' will escape all characters except for '.So if for example I have text with some single quotes ' in it, I can put   around it to make it behave like a single text string.The problem I have is when my file contains both double and single quote characters. Then, I cannot use either type of quotes to escape it. So how do I ask bash to treat it as a single string?Context: My iPhone's /var/mobile/Library/Safari/History.plist file. It contains something like:  <key>    <string>http://example.com/folder/index.html</string>    <string>Title of Webpage which may include ' and </string>  </key>I want to cat the file, pass it through grep to take the first line containing the text string and extract the URL from that.But grep chokes on all the quotes.Edit 1: Here are some screenshots of nano failing to read the file. Cat gives similar output. The graphical file editor iFile reads it as text.http://cloudrac3r.ddns.net/strange.htmlI am told this is what binary files do. I will do some experimenting.
How to process a file containing quotes?
bash;grep;escape characters