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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to solve awk: line 1: runaway string constant error? Post 302783945 by guruprasadpr on Thursday 21st of March 2013 07:53:48 AM
Old 03-21-2013
Its mainly because of the quoting issues present in a shell variable. Refer this link for more: Using Shell Variables - The GNU Awk User's Guide

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LINK(1) 							   User Commands							   LINK(1)

NAME
link - call the link function to create a link to a file SYNOPSIS
link FILE1 FILE2 link OPTION DESCRIPTION
Call the link function to create a link named FILE2 to an existing FILE1. --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit AUTHOR
Written by Michael Stone. REPORTING BUGS
Report link bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/> Report link translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO
link(2) The full documentation for link is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and link programs are properly installed at your site, the command info coreutils 'link invocation' should give you access to the complete manual. GNU coreutils 8.5 February 2011 LINK(1)
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