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gillou

gillou

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Jun 26, 2002
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Hi,
my problem is that i can't have "'" in my output, for example : awk '{printf "'%s'\n",$1}' file
to have something like : 'Field#1'
\',"'","''"... doesn't work (even with command print).

Thanks a lot !
 
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nawk -v q="'" '{printf "%c%s%c\n",q,$1,q}' file
 
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GREAT !
It workes, thank you very much !
 
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