How to escape a single quote inside awk

Question

I want do the following  awk  BEGIN  FS        printf    s      1     But escaping single quote this way does not work  awk  BEGIN  FS        printf     s       1     How to do this  Thanks for help

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This maybe what you re looking for   awk  BEGIN  FS        printf       s         1     That is  with      you close the opening    then print a literal   by escaping it and finally open the   again

User · Answer

For small scripts an optional way to make it readable is to use a variable like this   awk -v fmt    s  n    printf fmt   1     I found it conveninet in a case where I had to produce many times the single-quote character in the output and the  047 were making it totally unreadable

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Another option is to pass the single quote as an awk variable   awk -v q     BEGIN  FS        printf   s s s    q   1  q     Simpler example with string concatenation     Prints  test me    including  the single quotes    awk -v q      print q  0 q     lt  lt  lt  test me   test me

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awk  BEGIN  FS       printf   047 s 047     1

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A single quote is represented using  x27  Like in   awk  BEGIN  FS        printf   x27 s x27     1     Source

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