With a backslash. But as awk's input is usually on the command line, you need some shell quoting as well.awk 'END {printf("Some '\''single'\'' quoted stuff\n");}' </dev/null
Thanks Peter, I would have been here all year trying to figure that one out :-) Works like a charm Beers Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
