From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 25 21:40:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA17559 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Mar 1998 21:40:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wired.ctech.ac.za (wired.ctech.ac.za [155.238.4.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA17498 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 1998 21:39:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jacques@wired.ctech.ac.za) Received: from wired.ctech.ac.za (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wired.ctech.ac.za (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id HAA27585; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 07:22:22 +0200 (SAT) (envelope-from jacques@wired.ctech.ac.za) Message-ID: <3519E60E.52BFA1D7@wired.ctech.ac.za> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 07:22:22 +0200 From: Jacques Hugo X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ruslan Ermilov CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: awk and ' References: <199803251442.QAA02561@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > Once Jacques Hugo wrote: > > Hi there ... > > > > How do you print the ' character in awk. > > # echo "Does what you want" | awk '{ print "\x27" }' > ' Thanks, that did the trick. > # man 1 awk > > # info gawk Yes, thanks for the pointer. Regards -Jacques ------------------------------------------------------ The box said "Requires Windows 3.1 or better" ... so I got BSD Network Administrator | Jacques Hugo UNIX Systems | jacques@wired.ctech.ac.za Cape Technikon | +27-21-4603584 ------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message