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Subject: Re: [9front] [PATCH] awk: add %q format for quoted strings (see quote(2))
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Quoth james palmer <james@biobuf.link>:
> this one comes in handy for building bulk rename scripts.
> patch for git/import attached.
> 
> - james
> 

I think it makes sense to add this, though I'm
not sure how much we want to diverge from upstream.

Ape would get this by accident, but it's a superset
of what posix needs.

going the other way would also be neat:

	ls -l | awk -Q {print $NF}