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Old 05-26-2008
append a ' to the $1 $2
Hi all ,

Iam trying to append a ' to the end of the $1 and $2 in the bellow example :
awk '{print "exec upload" ,$1,$2,$3 "\ngo"}'
so the output would be something like this :
exec upload '444042 ','444042 ','919841037265'

i am getting :
exec upload 444042 ,444042 ,919841037265

thanks

cheers
# 2  
Old 05-26-2008
Hi, I tried to escape it inside awk, but I found no way to get it work, but this one works, defining the single quotation mark as a shell variable and handing it over to awk like this:

Code:
VAR="'"

awk -v var=${VAR}  '{print var$1var}' infile

laters
Zaxxon
# 3  
Old 05-26-2008
What about this:
Code:
awk -v var="'"  '{print var$1var}' infile

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