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linux - How to escape a single quote in single quote string in Bash?

I want to display a string in Bash like this

I'm a student

Of course you can do it like this

echo "I'm a student"

But how to accomplish this while using single quote around the string ?

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echo 'I'm a student'

does not work. But the following works:

echo $'I'm a student'

From the man page of bash:

A single quote may not occur between single quotes, even when preceded by a backslash.
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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.


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