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From: emb978@leah.Albany.Edu (Eric M. Boehm)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: AWK/shell quoting (was: Re: Access to UNIX-Related Publications)
Summary: Escape the single quote!
Message-ID: <2367@leah.Albany.Edu>
Date: 7 Jan 90 06:59:03 GMT
References: <487@longway.TIC.COM> <166@omaha1.UUCP> <18067@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU> <1990Jan6.233340.9978@smsc.sony.com>
Reply-To: emb978@leah.Albany.EDU.UUCP (Eric M. Boehm)
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In article <18067@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU> mike@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Mike Haertel) writes:
>In article <166@omaha1.UUCP> wcc@omaha1.UUCP (William C Carey) writes:
>>Any of the luminaries out there know how to get 'awk' (not nawk) to ouput a
>>single-quote character ( ascii 0x27 ).
>2.  You can do it by cooperating with shell quoting.  This is hairy,
>but will print a single quote:
>
>	awk 'BEGIN {print "'"'"'"}'

This solutions seem to be overly complex. Maybe I'm picking nits but
wouldn't this be easier and simpler?

awk 'BEGIN { print "\'" }'

Why go through all the silliness with " ' "'" ' " when you can just
escape the single quote? Or is there something I am missing?


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