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* escaping # in Emacs Shell
@ 2003-11-05 20:29 Chris Volinsky
  2003-11-05 21:16 ` Dan Anderson
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Chris Volinsky @ 2003-11-05 20:29 UTC (permalink / raw)



I have a file which is delimited with '#' (I know, dont ask).  I
cannot figure out how to escape this in Emacs shell-mode, as in for an
awk script. 

The following do not work:

awk -F# '{print $1}' filename
awk -F\# '{print $1}' filename
awk -F"#" '{print $1}' filename
awk -F'#' '{print $1}' filename

its not an awk problem, I get the same thing with join -t\#, etc.

Thanks,
Chris 

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* Re: escaping # in Emacs Shell
  2003-11-05 20:29 escaping # in Emacs Shell Chris Volinsky
@ 2003-11-05 21:16 ` Dan Anderson
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Dan Anderson @ 2003-11-05 21:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  Cc: help-gnu-emacs

If you want to be dangerous I bet you can find a command to create a
char from a hex symbol.  But if you're not using ASCII or plan to switch
between machines using Unicode that may be a bad idea.

-Dan

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