printing quotes using printf

[IMAUser]

How can a print quotes using printf.

printf ( "%s , %s, %s ", &aa , &bb, &cc );

I need the o/p to read

'Firstcol','Secondcol','Third Column'

Thanks

 

[Salem]

Try

printf( "'%s','%s','%s'\n", a, b, c )

Printing double quotes would be

printf( "\"%s\",\"%s\",\"%s\"\n", a, b, c )

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[Ygor]

Use the octal value...

printf "\047%s\047,\047%s\047,\047%s\047", $1, $2, $3

 

[IMAUser]

No I have tried that and it dosent work.
Actually there is a mistake in the question itself. Since this is a AWK printf
printf(" ' %s' , %s ,%s \n", $3, $2, $1)

So that dosent work.
I have tried the regular slashes and extra quotes, but not found the anseer yet.

 

[Ygor]

Tested...

echo one two three|awk '{printf "\047%s\047,\047%s\047,\047%s\047", $1, $2, $3}'

Result...

'one','two','three'

 

[dickiebird]

Works for me, Ygor !

Dickie Bird (-)))

 

[IMAUser]

Thanks the Octal value solution works.
Actually my First reply was to Salem , and just inserting quotes did not work.

Thanks, Ygor.

 

[Salem]

> Actually my First reply was to Salem , and just inserting quotes did not work.
Since you are using an AWK command line rather than an AWK program (where my answer works), your question was really "how do I protect ' from being interpreted by the shell" rather than "how do I print a ' using AWK"

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