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awk/sed help

wojtek75 — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 20:35:17 GMT

There is a following line in the file.txt:
name: val1 val2 val3 val4 ... valN
I would like to convert it just to:
"val1","val2","val3","val4",...,"valN"

I would like to use awk/sed for that. Any hint how to do it? Thanks in advance.

Re: awk/sed help

James R. Ferguson — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:06:34 GMT

Hi:

# X="val1 val2 val3 val4"

# echo $X|awk '{for (i=1;i"val1","val2","val3","val4"

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: awk/sed help

wojtek75 — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:15:15 GMT

Brilliant, thanks. And what if I want to have it in '' instead of "":
'val1','val2','val3','val4',...,'valN'

Re: awk/sed help

James R. Ferguson — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:20:52 GMT

Hi (again):

Well, if you want single quote instead of double ones, since we are doing this at the shell's command line, I'd use:

# echo $X|awk '{for (i=1;i'val1','val2','val3','val4'

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: awk/sed help

wojtek75 — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:23:44 GMT

Great, thanks!

Re: awk/sed help

Bob E Campbell — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:10:17 GMT

Since the question was awk/sed, it only seems fair for a procrastinator to add in the sed method:

sed -e "/^name: / {
s/[ ,]$[^ ,]*$/\"\1\"/g
}" \
-e s/\"\"/\",\"/g
-e "s/^name://"
"val1","val2","val3","val4"