How to use awk separator of single quote?

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00:00 How To Use Awk Separator Of Single Quote?
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To insert a single quote character in a single-quoted string, end the current string, write "'" or \' and begin the string again.

In your example, that's

awk 'BEGIN{FS="'"'"'"}{print $2}'

awk 'BEGIN{FS="'\''"}{print $2}'

However, using the -F switch to specify the field separator will result in more legible code:

awk -F\' '{print $2}'