Re: [Help-bash] IFS & read

[Greg Wooledge]

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 10:02:30PM +0200, suvayu ali wrote:
> I have never seen the syntax above with the `$'. What is the difference
> between the two? I tried looking for it in the info manual under
> "Quoting", but could not find anything. Can someone point me to the
> relevant part of the docs?

QUOTING
       ...

       Words of the form $'string' are treated specially.  The word expands to
       string, with backslash-escaped characters replaced as specified by  the
       ANSI  C  standard.  ...

(Bash 4.1 manual on Debian.)