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user6447029

Reputation:

How do I add single quotes into my awk command output?

I’m using Mac Yosemite, bash shell. I want to output single quotes in my output, and I have tried several things, without success …

awk -F, '{OFS=",";print ''$1'',$4,$6,$7}' my_list.csv

and

awk -F, '{OFS=",";print "'"$1"'",$4,$6,$7}' my_list.csv

Neither of these adds the single quotes into my output. How can I achieve this?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2713

Answers (2)

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 785156

You can use octal code as well:

# octal code 047 for '
awk -F, -v OFS=, '{print "\047" $1 "\047", $4, $6, $7}' my_list.csv

Upvotes: 2

Kent
Kent

Reputation: 195059

using variable is one way to go:

kent$ echo "a b c"|awk -v q="'" '$1=q$1q'
'a' b c

or you pick the escaping way:

kent$ echo "a b c"|awk '$1="'\''"$1"'\''"'
'a' b c

I prefer the 1st one.

Upvotes: 4

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