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bash (portable) quote a single quote in double quotes for substitution in a single quoted field (for use in e.g. borg --exclude pattern)
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# or, in other words: close single quote ' | dquote squote "'" | start single quote ', but this all quoted within single quotes for the sed command
# so this sed MUST ONLY be used for text which is substituted in a field which is itself quoted in single quotes (as in our --exclude='<pattern>')
<crazy output with string including single quote(s)> | sed -e 's/'"'"'/'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'/g' | awk ... -v q="'" '{ printf "--exclude="q"*/%s"q" ", $1 }'
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