awk is a powerful utility for text processing, but the command itself is surrounded by single quotes and unfortunately does not allow you to escape single quotes within the output. To workaround this, you can represent the single quote as its hexidecimal escape code “\x27”. $ echo -e “name=Ben\nname=Jerry” | awk -F’=’ ‘{ printf(“insert into … Linux: Outputting single quotes in awk output
If you need to call attention to a message within your script, a splash of color is often the best way to get noticed in the sea of monochrome text. The standard ANSI escape codes are supported at most consoles, and in its simplest form can be used like this: RED=’\033[0;31m’ GREEN=’\033[0;32m’ NC=’\033[0m’ echo -e … Bash: Outputting text in color for readability
The cmd.run state module is a handy way to run commands on a remote host. However, if your parameter values contain dollar signs ($) they will be interpolated in the target shell, which will lead to unexpected results. The trick is to escape properly by adding slashes before the dollar sign.