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in double quotes, the shell can handle some characters.
\x27 this is a hexadecimal representation of the character '

sed "s/=\([^ ;][^ ;]*\)/='\1'/g" myFile

Hi,



awk '/^-- Current Database:/ {A++}{print A" "$0}' ==> put a flag (a number follow of space) on each line of each Database block. for a given block, we have the same flag on each line,...

Please try RudiC's code the way he presented it.

You introduced syntax errors when you combined lines that RudiC had as separate lines in post #5 in this thread.

Try also
awk '
/-- / {if (cmd) close (cmd)
print
cmd = "sort | uniq -c | sort -k1,1r -k2"
next
}
{print | cmd
}

END {close (cmd)
...

It's a little few hard and the result is little few different (highest number then highest aphabetic so) :
awk '/^-- Current Database:/ {A--}{print A" "$0}' /tmp/file.txt | LC_COLLATE=C sort | uniq...

Hi,
Maybe as:
awk '/^-- Current Database:/ {A++}{print A" "$0}' file.txt | LC_COLLATE=C sort | uniq -c | sed 's/ *\([0-9]\+\) [0-9]\+ /\1 /;/-- Current Database:/s/^[0-9]\+ //'
Regards.