Timeline for Escaping gawk variables for shell commands
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| May 26, 2017 at 22:14 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | Wrapping the string in quotes doesn't work if the string contains one of these quote characters (or a bunch of other characters, for double quotes). Passing a pre-shell-quoted name to awk doesn't work if awk also needs to use the file name. | |
| May 26, 2017 at 16:03 | history | answered | steeldriver | CC BY-SA 3.0 |