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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.

Michael Homer
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Anonymous
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    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

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

or

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