Quoting quotes in awk
Ken Turkowski
ken at turtlevax.UUCP
Tue Mar 4 13:36:18 AEST 1986
How does one quote quotes in awk? I'd like to do something like the following:
print doit "\"" last0 "\"", "\"" $0 "\"" | "sh"
I.e. I want to pipe output to a program, putting quotes around some of
the arguments so they don't get interpreted by the shell. Alternatively,
I'd like to execute the program "doit" with arguments determined from
the awk program:
print "" | doit "\"" last0 "\"", "\"" $0 "\""
Can someone give me some ideas on how to do this?
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Ken Turkowski @ CIMLINC, Menlo Park, CA
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