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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: AWK/shell quoting
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Date: 11 Jan 90 16:59:38 GMT
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Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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I don't know about you guys, but if I have an awk script that's giving me
problems I sidestep globbing altogether:

cat >/tmp/awk.$$ << 'EOF'
big, hairy, awk script.
EOF
awk -f /tmp/awk.$$ stuff
rm -f /tmp/awk.$$

This also allows me to gen up parts of the script on the fly a lot easier.
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