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From: ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd,net.bugs
Subject: 4.?bsd (& other) awk handling of \ escapes in strings is undocumented
Message-ID: <5302@elsie.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 30-Nov-85 20:08:04 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 30 20:08:04 1985
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Organization: NIH-LEC, Bethesda, MD
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Keywords: awk backslash
Xref: watmath net.bugs.4bsd:1862 net.bugs:723

Index:		man/man1/awk.1

Description:
		Some (but not all) backslash escapes recognized by the
		C compiler in strings are recognized by awk; documentation
		as to which are (and aren't) is missing.  (I don't know if
		awk's behavior is documented in System V.)

Repeat-By:
		awk 'BEGIN { print "\"\\\b\t\f\r\n\007" ; exit }'
		man awk
		cat /usr/doc/awk
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