AWK/shell quoting

[Maarten Litmaath]

In article <2368 at leah.Albany.Edu> emb978 at leah.Albany.Edu (Eric M. Boehm) writes:
\In article <6954 at lindy.Stanford.EDU> karish at 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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