awk to echo ???

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi All,
I have the below command.

awk 'BEGIN {printf("%1s","cat")}' > temp.txt

can i do the same using echo ?If So, how?

Thanks
JS

2

May not be what you are looking for... but may be a lead..

echo "cat" | tr "\n" " " > temp.txt
3

See if you have printf(1) available directly as a shell command.

vnix$ printf %1s cat
catvnix$