From: Joseph L. Casale JCasale@activenetwerx.com

I have a command I execute: awk 'BEGIN { ORS=" " } { print """ $1 """ }' input_file which gives me exactly what I need, all field one's in quotes on one line each separated by one space. I now need to print a single quote around all of this, but the ORS flag is screwing me up, it's causing every attempt I try to repeat for every record.

awk -v q="'" ' BEGIN { ORS=" "; printf("%s", q) } { print """ $1 """ } END { printf("%s", q) } ' or awk ' BEGIN { ORS=" "; printf("\x27") } { print """ $1 """ } END { printf("\x27") } '

JD