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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
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Subject: Re: AWK/shell quoting
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Date: 10 Jan 90 22:57:26 GMT
References: <487@longway.TIC.COM> <166@omaha1.UUCP> <18067@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU> <1990Jan6.233340.9978@smsc.sony.com> <2367@leah.Albany.Edu> <6954@lindy.Stanford.EDU> <2368@leah.Albany.Edu>
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In article <2368@leah.Albany.Edu> emb978@leah.Albany.Edu (Eric M. Boehm) writes:
\In article <6954@lindy.Stanford.EDU> karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish) writes:
\>>awk 'BEGIN { print "\'" }'
\>
\>Have you tried it?
\...
\Yes, I did try it. However, I did forget that the rules for the c shell
\are not those for the Bourne shell. [...]

You didn't check the abovementioned example in the Bourne shell either.
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