printing dot using awk

[Ted Yu]

Hi,
How do I print a dot '.' using awk ? See the question mark in following expression:

awk -F \/ '{ print $1 ? }'


I tried '\x2E' but got error.

Cheers

[s***@public.gmane.org]

awk '{printf("%s .\n", $1)}'

[Will McLean]

awk -F \/ '{ print $1 "." }'



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From: Ted Yu <ted_yu-/***@public.gmane.org>
To: "seajug-***@public.gmane.org" <seajug-***@public.gmane.org>
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 4:38 PM
Subject: [seajug] printing dot using awk



 
Hi,
How do I print a dot '.' using awk ? See the question mark in following expression:

awk -F \/ '{ print $1 ? }'


I tried '\x2E' but got error.

Cheers
 

[Ted Yu]

Thanks for the quick reply.

On Monday, March 31, 2014 5:34 PM, Will McLean <wimcle-/***@public.gmane.org> wrote:

 
awk -F \/ '{ print $1 "." }'


________________________________
From: Ted Yu <ted_yu-/***@public.gmane.org>
To: "seajug-***@public.gmane.org" <seajug-***@public.gmane.org>
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 4:38 PM
Subject: [seajug] printing dot using awk



 
Hi,
How do I print a dot '.' using awk ? See the question mark in following expression:

awk -F \/ '{ print $1 ? }'


I tried '\x2E' but got error.

Cheers