Netvouz / MondoTofu / tag / quotes http://netvouz.com/MondoTofu/tag/quotes?feed=rss MondoTofu's bookmarks tagged "quotes" on Netvouz how to escape single quote in awk inside printf - Stack Overflow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9899001/how-to-escape-single-quote-in-awk-inside-printf down vote accepted This maybe what you're looking for: awk 'BEGIN {FS=" ";} {printf "'\''%s'\'' ", $1}' GNU/Linux MondoTofu Tue, 11 Oct 2016 18:34:37 GMT Using ''awk'' to deal with CSV that uses quoted/unquoted delimiters [Bash Hackers Wiki] http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/snipplets/awkcsv awk CSV quotes optionally surround text field GNU/Linux MondoTofu Fri, 23 Sep 2016 14:09:35 GMT Awk - A Tutorial and Introduction - by Bruce Barnett http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Awk.html#uh-55 print printf tutorial Unix Tips MondoTofu Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:59:35 GMT