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How to print a quote in a AWK script ?

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ray33569

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Anybody can help on that one ????

I tried many things but without success ...

Thanks

Ray
 
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Example:
awk ' BEGIN {
print "Hi, This is how you \" get quoted \".
}'

HTH
MMD
 
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Forgot: another " at the end;)
\ escapes the ".
 
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