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Old 09-17-2010
Data awk loop: display special characters
Hi everybody;
I have a code and this fetches data from first.txt,modify it and outputs it to second.txt file.

Code:
l awk 'NR>1 {print "l ./gcsw "$1" lt all lset Data="$2" Value "$3}' /home/gcsw/first.txt > /home/gcsw/second.txt


this outputs as:
Code:
l ./gcsw 123 lt all lset Data=456 Value 789

instead i want to display it as:
Code:
l ./gcsw 123 'lt all;lset Data=456 Value 789'

but ' and ; characters make problem. how can i express those characters as normal text in awk? is there any solution like ASCII character numbers?
Last edited by gc_sw; 12-03-2010 at 11:37 AM..
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Old 09-17-2010
Yes,
use \47 for the single quote (the semicolon is not special):

Code:
% awk 'BEGIN { print "\47;"}'  
';

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