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From: ken@turtlevax.UUCP (Ken Turkowski)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Quoting quotes in awk
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Date: Mon, 3-Mar-86 22:36:18 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  3 22:36:18 1986
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How does one quote quotes in awk?  I'd like to do something like the following:

	print doit "\"" last0 "\"", "\"" $0 "\"" | "sh"

I.e. I want to pipe output to a program, putting quotes around some of
the arguments so they don't get interpreted by the shell.  Alternatively,
I'd like to execute the program "doit" with arguments determined from
the awk program:

	print "" | doit "\"" last0 "\"", "\"" $0 "\""

Can someone give me some ideas on how to do this?
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Ken Turkowski @ CIMLINC, Menlo Park, CA
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