How to escape single quote using awk in a bash script

Question

This is what I have so far, tried multiple ways but can\'t get it just right. My goal is to sanitize the input to prevent problems while inputting to mysql from text file

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Answer 1

What you want is:

awk '{gsub(/\047/,".")}1' file

See http://awk.freeshell.org/PrintASingleQuote.