topic Re: Get awk to print single quotes character in Operating System - HP-UX

Get awk to print single quotes character

Ian McClement_1 — Wed, 26 Sep 2001 09:19:32 GMT

I know the question has been asked many times
before, but can someone remind me how to get awk to print the single quote character.
ie. echo string| awk_text resulting in 'string'
Have tried the usual
echo string|awk '{print "\'"$1}' combinations

Cheers
Ian

Re: Get awk to print single quotes character

Robin Wakefield — Wed, 26 Sep 2001 09:29:39 GMT

Hi Ian,

here you go:

echo hello | awk '{print "'\''" $1 "'\''"}'
'hello'

Rgds, Robin

Re: Get awk to print single quotes character

Graham Cameron_1 — Wed, 26 Sep 2001 14:18:48 GMT

Alternatively:

echo hello | awk '{print "\047" $1 "\047"}'