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Old 03-11-2008
awk to print ' (single quotes)
I'm building a file with sql delete statements. I need to print the single quotes for the where clause.

i.e.
delete from Command where CommandName = 'SomeName';

I have the following in my script

input=$(pwd)/Cmnd.csv

i=0

while read line
do
if test $i -ge 1;
then
echo "$line" | awk -F'|' '{print "delete from Command where CommandName='"$1"';}' >> deleteCmd.dat

fi

i=$i+1
done < $input
This gives me:
delete from Command where CommandName=;

how do I print the (single quotes) ' with awk?
# 2  
Old 03-11-2008
In Perl, you have to replace it with:

Code:
\047

I saw something on Google which showed this in awk:

Code:
\47

And for what it's worth, this prints a single quote in bash:

Code:
 $ echo -e "\047"
'

# 3  
Old 03-11-2008
Code:
echo "FirstName|LastName" | awk -F"|" '{print "delete from Command where CommandName=\047"$1"\047"}'
delete from Command where CommandName='FirstName'

 
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