Re: Storing a Linux shell command into an AWK variable

On 6/3/2024 9:03 pm, Ed Morton wrote:

 Do not do this. You wouldn't do it in shell (see
https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/050) and you definitely must not do
this in awk as that'll have all of the issues associated with storing
code in a shell variable PLUS additional issues of robustness and
efficiency related to spawning a subshell to call an external tool from awk.

I undertsand the limitations of Awk. But I was wondering about how far I could go. :)

Whatever it is you're trying to do, post a new question with a minimal
complete, verifiable example (see
https://stackoverflow.com/help/minimal-reproducible-example for what
that means) so we can help you do it the right way.

Already done so. My question in the end was more about escaping special/reserved symbols.