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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: AWK/shell quoting (was: Re: Access to UNIX-Related Publications)
Message-ID: <1990Jan7.180329.13144@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 7 Jan 90 18:03:29 GMT
References: <487@longway.TIC.COM> <166@omaha1.UUCP> <18067@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU> <1990Jan6.233340.9978@smsc.sony.com>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
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As quoted from <1990Jan6.233340.9978@smsc.sony.com> by dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott):
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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 ).  I can't get the 'print' or
| 
| >2.  You can do it by cooperating with shell quoting.  This is hairy,
| >but will print a single quote:
| >
| >	awk 'BEGIN {print "'"'"'"}'
| 
| One trick I use is to say
| 
| 	awk 'BEGIN {
| 		Sq = "'"'"'";
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A variant on the above which doesn't require tricky quoting is:

	awk 'BEGIN {
		Sq = sprintf("%c", 39);

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