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

For small scripts an optional way to make it readable is to use a variable like this:

awk -v fmt="'%s'\n" '{printf fmt, $1}'

I found it conveninet in a case where I had to produce many times the single-quote character in the output and the \047 were making it totally unreadable