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Article #1033

spurious syntax error

#1033
From: Bill Trost
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1989 05:06
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When playing with autoload, I got the following, apparently bogus
syntax error; reproduce with:
	echo '\''
in a shell script.

I expect this to echo a single quote; am I confused?
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