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How to append a semcolon to every record in a file?

Hi,

If a file is like

123
456
894
568
234

and the desired o/p is

"123"
"456"
"894"
--

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How can it be done?

Please advise.
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Code:
sed 's/.*/"&"/' file
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awk '{print "\"" $0 "\""' file
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Thanks..it worked.
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