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From: tale@cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: AWK/shell quoting
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Date: 11 Jan 90 01:47:51 GMT
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In article <7277@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> ijk@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (ihor.j.kinal) writes:
> Why not this:
>          awk "BEGIN { print \"'\" } "
>
> Yes, I've tried it, and it does work [and it's simpler than the other
> suggestions].

For this particular case it is just fine but for most awk expressions,
probably including the one from which this particular question was
derived, you want to put the programme specification in single quotes
and not double quotes so that $ environment variable interpretation is
not done.

Dave
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