awk escape single quote

Question

Lets assume the following:

head delete.txt | awk '{printf("curl -XPOST 'localhost:52000/buildings/_search?pretty' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d' { '\'"query'\'": { '\'"match'\'": { '\'"building.id'\'" : '\'"%s'\'"} } } '; \n", $1);}'

where the contains some strings and the double quotes have been escaped (") in order to be printed. What about the single quotes .

error message is awk: ^ unterminated string

What a strange command line. I would used `xargs printf`. – KamilCuk Sep 09 '20 at 08:53 — KamilCuk, Sep 09 '20 at 08:53

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 09 '20 at 08:59

What about the single quotes .

I saw typically it's used as a variable.

awk -v q="'" 'BEGIN {print q "Something" q}' </dev/null

But in your case, I would drop awk and if you meant to execute the curl:

head delete.txt | xargs -d '\n' -I {} curl -XPOST 'localhost:52000/buildings/_search?pretty' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{ "query": { "match": { "building.id" :  "{}" }}'

or similar with printf when only for formatting.

awk escape single quote

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