Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 09:46:04 +0200 From: Jacques Hugo <jacques@wired.ctech.ac.za> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: awk and ' Message-ID: <351A07BC.167EB0E7@wired.ctech.ac.za> References: <199803260733.JAA13943@relay.ucb.crimea.ua>
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Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > Thanks, that did the trick.
>
> You, probably, tried to issue smth like this, yeah?
>
> # echo xxx | awk '{ print "\'" }'
No.
According to your 'examples', it works for
GNU awk (gawk), but no for awk.
man awk states:
The following features of awk are not available in POSIX
awk.
o The \x escape sequence.
[snip]
That must mean something to you, yes?
So to print a ' char:
/usr/bin/awk 'BEGIN {
printf("The char 39 looks like this %c\n",39)
}'
Regards
-Jacques
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