I use a Perl one-liner to create an SQL statement, but I am not able to include single quotes. This is what I want: Take the first field and add quotes to it. echo "a,b" | perl -F',' -lane 'print $F[0];' 'a' I tried a few different ways, but it didn't work for me. echo "a,b" | perl -F',' -lane 'print qq('$F[0]');' [0] echo "a,b" | perl -F',' -lane 'print q('$F[0]');' [0] Here is another interestin