A single metacharacter FS does not need to
be escaped. This should be specified in 
the man page.

Notes:
Mon Jun 7 15:01:49 EDT 2010 geoff
    I don't believe that the proposed change is correct.


Reference: /n/sources/patch/sorry/awk_man_fs
Date: Tue May 25 12:33:41 CES 2010
Signed-off-by: esoriano@lsub.org
Reviewed-by: geoff

--- /sys/man/1/awk	Tue May 25 12:33:02 2010
+++ /sys/man/1/awk	Tue May 25 12:32:57 2010
@@ -74,6 +74,9 @@
 .IR fs
 option defines the input field separator to be the regular expression
 .IR fs .
+If
+.IR fs
+is a single metacharacter, it does not need to be escaped.
 .PP
 An input line is normally made up of fields separated by white space,
 or by regular expression