Hi,
I'm new to scripting and AIX. I'm running the following:

lspv | awk '{ print "lspv",$1" | egrep 'PP\|PHYSICAL'; lspv -l",$1 }'

Which creates this command:

lspv hdisk0 | egrep PP|PHYSICAL; lspv -l hdisk0
lspv hdisk1 | egrep PP|PHYSICAL; lspv -l hdisk1

Troube is, I need the patterns for egrep to be enclosed in single quotes
lspv hdisk0 | egrep 'PP|PHYSICAL'; lspv -l hdisk0
lspv hdisk1 | egrep 'PP|PHYSICAL'; lspv -l hdisk1

I thought using backslashes would help:
lspv | awk '{ print "lspv",$1" | egrep \'PP\|PHYSICAL\'; lspv -l",$1 }'

but get the same results:
lspv hdisk0 | egrep PP|PHYSICAL; lspv -l hdisk0
lspv hdisk1 | egrep PP|PHYSICAL; lspv -l hdisk1

I've entered the command manualy to get the desired results, below:

root@test:/ > lspv hdisk1 | egrep 'PP|PHYSICAL'; lspv -l hdisk1
PHYSICAL VOLUME: hdisk1 VOLUME GROUP: sanvg
PP SIZE: 16 megabyte(s) LOGICAL VOLUMES: 5
TOTAL PPs: 955 (15280 megabytes) VG DESCRIPTORS: 2
FREE PPs: 534 (8544 megabytes) HOT SPARE: no
USED PPs: 421 (6736 megabytes) MAX REQUEST: 256 kilobytes
hdisk1:
LV NAME LPs PPs DISTRIBUTION MOUNT POINT
sas 52 52 00..52..00..00..00 /sas
worktest 326 326 07..128..191..00..00 /worktest
db2data1 32 32 32..00..00..00..00 /db2data1
loglv00 1 1 00..01..00..00..00 N/A
scripts 10 10 00..10..00..00..00 /scripts


Any ideas?

lspv | awk -v q="'" '{ print "lspv",$1" | egrep " q "PP\|PHYSICAL" q "; lspv -l",$1 }'

Thanks, vgersh99!