awk printing ' character

[Gavin Clarke]

How do I print ' as part of an awk command, I can't seem to find the right way to do it.

ls | awk '{print "'" $1 "'"}' just doesn't work.

Thanks very much in anticipation of some stunning insights.

[Walter Goncalves]

Hi try

awk '{print $x}'

where x is the field number of your command

[Pete Randall]

awk '{ print $1 }'

should work. Cut and paste it to make sure you get the spacing right.


Pete

[john korterman]

Hi,
the only way I can think of:
# echo hello | awk -v flip="\'" '{print flip $1 }'

regards,
John K.

[Gavin Clarke]

Sorry that's not going to work. I need to print the character ' round either side of the filename ($1).

Thanks for a quick reply though.

[Gavin Clarke]

That flip line seems to do the trick.

Hmmm got out of sequence a bit there.

[Pete Randall]

Gavin,

Sorry - I missed that you're trying to print the apostrophe. Working . . .


Pete

[john korterman · Accepted solution]

sorry,
should of course have been:
# ls | awk -v flip="\'" '{print flip $1 flip }'

regards,
John K.

[curt larson_1]

have you tried:
print "\'" $1 "\'";
or
printf("'%s'\n",$1);

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Gavin:

# ls -l /tmp/me|awk '{print "'\''" $NF "'\''"}'

Regards!

...JRF...