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# 1  
Old 10-14-2011
Enclose words between double quotes
My input is like this:

Code:
this is a test line.

I want my output to be like this:

Code:
"this", "is", "a", "test", "line"

Any idea how this can be done in Linux?
# 2  
Old 10-14-2011
Hi, try this

echo " \"this\", \"is\", \"a\", \"test\", \"line\" "

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# 3  
Old 10-14-2011
Tried with multiple commands ..
Code:
$ echo "this is a test line" | sed 's, ,\"\, \",g' | awk '{print "\""$0"\""}'
"this", "is", "a", "test", "line"

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# 4  
Old 10-14-2011
Code:
 echo "this is a test line." | sed 's/[a-z][a-z]*/"&",/g'
"this", "is", "a", "test", "line",.

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