How do I append chars in a single line via sed ?

[Karsten Löperick]

Hi all,

I have a problem with appending chars at the front and the end of a line that matches my search critria.
I want produce a output like this one
TEXT1 -> "TEXT1"
TEXT2 -> "TEXT2"

I tried this one with sed but it does not work correctly : sed "/TEXT1/s/(.*\/\"(.*)\"/ fileout
So sed should search TEXT1 an should replace the matched line by "TEXT1"

Thank you very much for any hints and helps

Karsten

[Andreas Voss · Accepted solution]

Hi,

this shoud work:

sed 's/\(TEXT[0-9]\)/"\1"/' filein >fileout

Regards

[mw_4]

you cat edit file a like contents you want replace words..ie
#cat a
TEXT1..10..nth
sed 's/^/"/g' < a > c
sed 's/$/"/g' < c > a
#cat a
"TEXT1"

Good luck.!!

[Karsten Löperick]

Hi ,

Andreas answer is exactly what I want.
The new thing for me was the "\1" inside sed for replacing the whole Hold Space.

Thanks all for the quick reply and 10 points for Andreas.

Karsten