How to add double quotes to a line with SED or AWK?
Use this to pipe your input into:
sed 's/^/"/;s/$/"/'
^
is the anchor for line start and $
the anchor for line end. With the sed
line we're replacing the line start and the line end with "
and "
respectively.
Example:
$ echo -e "name,id,2\nname,id,3\nname,id,4"|sed 's/^/"/;s/$/"/'
"name,id,2"
"name,id,3"
"name,id,4"
without the sed
:
$ echo -e "name,id,2\nname,id,3\nname,id,4"
name,id,2
name,id,3
name,id,4
Your file seems to have DOS line endings. Pipe it through dos2unix
first.
Proof:
$ cat test.txt
name,id,2
name,id,3
name,id,4
$ sed 's/^/"/;s/$/"/' test.txt
"name,id,2
"name,id,3
"name,id,4
$ cat test.txt|dos2unix|sed 's/^/"/;s/$/"/'
"name,id,2"
"name,id,3"
"name,id,4"
Your input file has carriage returns at the end of the lines. You need to use dos2unix
on the file to remove them. Or you can do this:
sed 's/\(.*\)\r/"\1"/g'
which will remove the carriage return and add the quotes.