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

[Brandon S. Allbery]

As quoted from <1990Jan6.233340.9978 at smsc.sony.com> by dce at smsc.sony.com (David Elliott):
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| In article <18067 at umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU> mike at umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Mike Haertel) writes:
| >In article <166 at omaha1.UUCP> wcc at 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);

++Brandon
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