Is there a way to use apostrophes in sed commands?

Question

Is there a way to use apostrophes ' with the sed command?

I mean this: -

sed '-2 a\\
What's up?' text

I am talking about the apostrophe in "What's up". If I do it like this it gives me an error "Unmatched"

I tried to escape that apostrophe with \ OR \\ like this What\'s up?, but it doesn't work.

and to use an apostrophe in, e.g., a search pattern you can use the octal: `\o047` - e.g. `sed -n -e '/\o047/p'` to print only lines containing an apostrophe. — cas, Jul 03 '16 at 13:46

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 02 '16 at 03:24

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sed '2 a\ 
What'\''s up?' text

or

sed "2 a\ 
What's up?" text

answered Jul 02 '16 at 03:24

steeldriver

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