AWK/shell quoting

Eric M. Boehm emb978 at leah.Albany.Edu
Mon Jan 8 05:50:20 AEST 1990


In article <6954 at lindy.Stanford.EDU> karish at forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish) writes:
>>awk 'BEGIN { print "\'" }'
>
>Have you tried it?
>
>    % awk 'BEGIN { print "\'" }'
>    Unmatched ".

Yes, I did try it. However, I did forget that the rules for the c shell
are not those for the Bourne shell. Several people pointed this out to
me. I do check out things before I post but in this case I slipped up. I
will make a point to check both shells in the future.

-- 
Eric M. Boehm
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