Double quotes and variable proble in echo

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

HI Guys,

I want to echo below line in my file :-

lpd | grep AL | nawk '{print "1dLA - " $0}

How can i echo same Output

2

I think your nawk is missing the last '.

cat <<"EOF" >> filename
lpd | grep AL | nawk '{print "1dLA - " $0}'
EOF

Note the last EOF must be at the beginning of the line, not indented.

3

what about echo ?? it is possible ?

4

Sure, but ugly:

echo "lpd | grep AL | nawk '{print \"1dLA - \" $0}'" > whatever

The <<"EOF" trick on the other hand lets you just paste the original text in unmodified. Much less chance of typos.

Note that it's not a property of echo how this works, it's a property of quoting in general.

5

HI

I am getting my script name in output

lpd | grep AL | nawk '{print "1dLA - " ./gc.sh}'

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got it