Hi all,

It is a very stupid problem but I am not able to find a solution to it.

I am using awk to get a column from a file and I want to get the output field in between single quotes. For example,

Input.txt

123 abc
321 ddff
433 dfg
........

I want output file to be as
output.txt

value is 'abc'
value is 'ddff'
value is 'dfg'
...............

the problem is how to get these single quotes in output, at this moment I am first taking *abc* and then replacing * with ' (single quote).
How can we do this with awk

thanks
Gaurav