Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 09:33:57 +0200 (EET) From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua> To: jacques@wired.ctech.ac.za (Jacques Hugo) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Re: awk and ' Message-ID: <199803260733.JAA13943@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> In-Reply-To: <3519E60E.52BFA1D7@wired.ctech.ac.za> from "Jacques Hugo" at "Mar 26, 98 07:22:22 am"
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Once Jacques Hugo wrote: > Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > > Once Jacques Hugo wrote: > > > Hi there ... > > > > > > How do you print the ' character in awk. > > > > # echo "Does what you want" | awk '{ print "\x27" }' > > ' > > Thanks, that did the trick. You, probably, tried to issue smth like this, yeah? # echo xxx | awk '{ print "\'" }' This won't work, because according to sh(1): * Single Quotes * Enclosing characters in single quotes preserves the literal mean- * ing of all the characters (except single quotes, making it impos- * sible to put single-quotes in a single-quoted string). By the way, the following also works: # echo ok | awk "{ print \"'\" }" ' -- Ruslan Ermilov System Administrator ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank +380-652-247647 Simferopol, Crimea 2426679 ICQ Network, UIN To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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