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Date:      Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:05:04 -0500
From:      Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
To:        josh.carroll@gmail.com
Cc:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: semi-OT: awk - field separator
Message-ID:  <18236.42608.917223.337252@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
In-Reply-To: <8cb6106e0711151035n2d33e58fja03637a1a6a89a9e@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <18236.36570.116953.110494@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <8cb6106e0711151035n2d33e58fja03637a1a6a89a9e@mail.gmail.com>

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Josh Carroll writes:

>  >         What is the canonical way to get (FreeBSD default) awk to use a
>  > single double-quote as the field separator?  I have tried variations
>  > on -F\\\" and -F"\"" and the best I can get is:
>  
>  awk -F'"'
>  
>  That's a single quote, then a double quote, then another single
>  quote. Or:

	That's the ticket.
	Thanks, everyone.


			Robert Huff



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