awk: How can i hide the ' sign

[Krenzer]

Hello,

i'm searching the systax to resolve this problem. I use the \x option, to print the ' sign, at the moment. But it's not very beautiful ;-)

Thanx

[Christian Gebhardt · Accepted solution]

Hi
not really better:

echo 1 | awk '{printf("sign: '"'"' next text\n")}'

Chris

[Christian Gebhardt]

If you cant' read the quotes, copy and paste works ;-)

single quote-double quote-single quote-double quote-single quote

[Bill Hassell]

This is a standard shell feature. Single and double quotes are used to define strings and to avoid error messages, they must be used in pairs. Every computer language from FORTRAN to shells to Perl will have specific rules on how to display a string with characters that have special meaning.

[Krenzer]

Ok, thanx for the info !