AWK/shell quoting

brnstnd at stealth.acf.nyu.edu brnstnd at stealth.acf.nyu.edu
Thu Jan 11 14:48:28 AEST 1990


In article <7277 at cbnewsh.ATT.COM> ijk at cbnewsh.ATT.COM (ihor.j.kinal) writes:
> 	awk "BEGIN { print \"'\" } "

Congratulations for testing your solution before posting it, but it
only works under sh. In contrast,

	awk 'BEGIN { print "'\''" } '

works under sh and csh. (More complicated? Give me a break.)

---Dan



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