Shell/gawk interaction

[Ralph Finch]

I do not understand why the following bourne shell script generates an
error in the awk program:

(call the script file test1)

#!/bin/sh
filename=$1 ; shift
nargs=$#  
args="$*"
echo $args

gawk '
BEGIN {
args="'$args'"
print args
exit 
}' $filename


(running the script file):

test1 abc 1 2 3
1 2 3
gawk:  syntax error near line 3:
args="1
     ^ unterminated string


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