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Old 03-07-2011
What does \042 & \047 mean when used in awk body
Hi,
I have seen in several posts in this forum use these 2 features with awk.

For e.g. replacing the FS space with FS " in a file below command is used.
awk '{print $3 "\042" $4}' test

I searched everywhere but no success. I am still a novice in unix scripting ,so please be gentle Smilie

Regds,
Kunwar
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Old 03-07-2011
\042 means octal value 42 which is a double quote. For more information
Code:
man ascii

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Old 03-07-2011
Thanks fpmurphy!!
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