How to escape a single quote inside awk

Question

I want do the following

awk \'BEGIN {FS=\" \";} {printf \"\'%s\' \", $1}\'

But escaping single quote this way does not work

Answer 1

A single quote is represented using \x27

Like in

awk 'BEGIN {FS=" ";} {printf "\x27%s\x27 ", $1}'

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