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

Show the awk syntax you are using as part of the script and the input data.

Or use the ascii value...

Hi All,
vgersh and ygor thanks a lot for the help, both the above things are working perfectly fine.

Hugow thanks a lot for your time, the awk syntax which I will be using now is

or
Thanks and regards,
Gaurav

awk '{ print "value is '"'"'" $2 "'"'"'" }' input.txt

which prints

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

awk '{ print "value is","'\''" $2 "'\''" }' input.txt

does the same thing but may be easier to understand