title: Why can't I escape quote in gawk?
body: <p>I'm trying to do the following, but either I'm way too tired and can't think, or something weird is hapening with the escapes:</p>
  
  <pre><code>scanimage -L | gawk '/N650U/ {print gensub("[\'`]", "", "g", $2)}'
  pipe bquote&gt; 
  </code></pre>