insert characters in each line of a file.

[schocku]

Simple awk/sed question.
My input file is as follows :
abc
ddfdf
fjjjjj
dffdff

I need to insert a ' at the beginning of each line and insert ', at the end of each line. So the output should look like

'abc',
'ddfdf',
'fjjjjj',
'dffdff,

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[dickiebird]

You need to use " around the sed command eg
sed "s/^/'/; s/$/'/" yourfile >newfile
HTH

Dickie Bird (-)))

 

[dickiebird]

Yes - I know it's the awk forum, but ........?

Dickie Bird (-)))

 

[LoloFR]

and with awk

awk -v QUOTE=\`
'{
print QUOTE $0 QUOTE
}'

@+
Lolo

 

[schocku]

Thanks for your help guys.