AWK/shell quoting (was: Re: Access to UNIX-Related Publications)

[Brandon S. Allbery]

Someone suggested using \' instead of '.  That won't work; single quoting
takes precedence over backslash escapes, so \ is *ignored* by the shell in
single quotes.  (This is arguably incorrect; were I designing it, I would
choose the escape with the shortest "active time" (e.g. \) as the highest
priority quote, in keeping with the KISS principle.  But it's *far* too late
to change it now.)

++Brandon
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