What about in a here doc so some thing like
#!/bin/bash
TEST='here' cat << EOF awk '/$TEST/ {print}' /somefile EOF
do the ' still keep there meaning in a here doc ?
Wouldn't it be a lot easier to use awk's -v option (that's the reason it's there):
#!/bin/bash
TEST="Here"
echo "is a test" |
/usr/bin/awk -v i="$TEST" '{print ("\"" i, $0 ".\"")}'
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