David Lonie - 2007-10-08

I'd like to use awk to generate a LaTeX table from within a GRI script. When I go to enter a

\\ \hline

at the end of each row, the escape characters behave oddly. I've tried

\\\\ \\hline

and

\\\\\\\\ \\\\hline

and so on, trying to get past both GRI and awk's escape sequences. There is little documentation about escaping in GRI, could someone clue me in on how GRI handles this?

Here's a sample line from my script:

#!/usr/bin/gri
system awk '/Standard/ {print $1, "&", $2, "\\\\\\\\ \\\\hline"}' tables/data.dat > tables/table.tex

Any ideas how to pass that phrase into the table?