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Old 10-03-2008
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Replace the last command with something like


Code:
sed -e 's/NULL//g' -e "2,\$s/,/,'/" $fname >$fname.new

This adds a single quote immediately after the first comma, except on the first line. Take out the 2,\$ prefix if you want it on the first line, too.

All the other occurrences of cat are Useless, too; sed is perfectly capable of reading from a named file all by itself.