ascii characters in echo statements

[charles@lunarmedia.net]

I am trying to write a shell script that uses:

echo "set w4day='ls *.4 | cut -d . -f 1-5'" > bk_$domain.sh

So, when I put it into my shell script, I have to translate some
characters as so:

echo "set w4day=\140ls \052.4 | cut -d . -f 1-5\140"


Now, the * comes out just fine, however the ' symbols, marked as \140,
just don't come out correctly, in fact, they translate verbatim, as a
slash followed by 1, 4, and a 0.

Why is this?


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