When matching patterns with / in them, having to escape the / quickly becomes unwieldy, ugly:/\/usr\/share\/man\//With sed, perl or Vim, I would use a different delimiter for the regex, say ::sed '\:/usr/share/man/: do something'perl -ne 'print if m:/usr/share/man/:':g:/usr/share/man/: do something  VimHow can I avoid this awk? Something like:awk ':/usr/share/man/: {do something}'The best I can think of is to use a variable:awk -v pat='/usr/share/man/' '$0 ~ pat {do something}'But that is very verbose compared to the sed/perl/vim method.Of course, there might be other ways to match paths like /usr/share/man/, but that's not the only place where / could appear in a pattern.
How do I avoid the leaning toothpick syndrome in awk?
awk;regular expression