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Old 01-06-2012
Power adding quotes around each column in a csv file
I saved the csv file in a comma delimited format.
Sample input
input.csv
1 abc 2
2 def 4
3 ghi 6
4 jkl 8
5 mno 10
output.csv should look like this with single quotes around each field
'1' 'abc' '2'
'2' 'def' '4'
'3' 'ghi' '6'
'4' 'jkl' '8'
'5' 'mno' '10'
Please help me Smilie
This is what I did. It does not work.
{linux1:~} cut -f1- -d"," 'input.csv'|sed -e 's/\([^ $]*\)/\"\1/g' -e 's/$/\"/' >output.csv Any help is appreciated Smilie
# 2  
Old 01-06-2012
Try this:-

Code:
 sed -e "s/^/'/" -e "s/ /' '/g" -e 's/$/'"'"'/' input.csv > output.csv

It puts a ' at the start and end of each line, and replaces all the spaces with ' '.
Last edited by Franklin52; 01-06-2012 at 06:03 PM..
# 3  
Old 01-06-2012
It does not work with
Code:
 sed -e "s/^/'/" -e "s/ /' '/g" -e 's/$/'"'"'/' input.csv > output.csv

The output looks something like this.
 
'1 abc 2
'
'2 def 4
'
'3 ghi 6
'
'4 jkl 8
'
'5 mno 10
'
# 4  
Old 01-06-2012
Code:
sed "s/[[:alnum:]]*/'&'/g" input >output

Code:
$ cat tst
1 abc 2
2 def 4
3 ghi 6
4 jkl 8
5 mno 10

Code:
$ sed "s/[[:alnum:]]*/'&'/g" tst
'1' 'abc' '2'
'2' 'def' '4'
'3' 'ghi' '6'
'4' 'jkl' '8'
'5' 'mno' '10'

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