Sun life: Linux:Bash:how to print quotation marks in awk

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

ls | awk '{print "'\''"$1"'\''"}'

or

awk 'BEGIN { print "Here is a single quote \47" }'

Pacjack said...: And how to print a double quotation mark (")?
As
# ls | awk '{print "'\"'"$1"'\''"}'
doesn't work.; May 17, 2010 at 5:44 AM
Sun life said...: Even simpler:

ls | awk '{print "\""$1"\""}'; October 30, 2010 at 11:05 PM
Blog de Marco said...: awk '{print "\047between double quotes\047"}'; March 14, 2012 at 1:24 PM
Blog de Marco said...: sorry \47; March 14, 2012 at 1:25 PM