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I think getting awk to recognize that a field separator within a quoted string should be ignored is a great addition. This is not inconsistent with the "unix way." Many, many unix tools recognize that a quoted string should be treated as a separate entity. The more unix-like approach would have been to force users to remove quotes if they want awk to split strings based on field separators within quotes. In hindsight, I'm surprised the quote respecting option wasn't added a long time ago.