I would like to know how to print a single quote in nawk ...

Eg:

echo myname | nawk '{print $1}'

The output should be
'myname'
(the word myname within single quotes)

I have tried a couple of alternatives, but have not been successful ...

Thanks in advance ...

Cheers
Sathyaram

I cheat...

echo hello | awk -v quote=\' '{print quote $1 quote}'

I should imagine that would work for nawk also.

Damian

Thanks ... It works

Sathyaram

If you can modify your input to awk, you could of course also do...

echo \'hello\' | awk '{print $1}'

Damian