On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Linux News User wrote: You were lucky that I didn't just delete your mail, as I do with almost all mail in HTML.

Hi I need to have a ' caracter on the output using awk.

I'm using the follow awk instruction:

awk -F: '{print "hello 'a'", $1}' /etc/passwd

Try this instead: awk -F: '{print "hello \'a\'", $1}' /etc/passwd Regards Ole -- Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what? -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq