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# 1  
Old 08-29-2012
replace /n with special character
I would like to replace /n with ',' and after replace remove last semicolon then put a open brace in starting and closing brace in end of line. See below example:

input:
Code:
1234
3455
24334
234

output:
Code:
('1234,'3455',24334','234')

Thanks
# 2  
Old 08-29-2012
Hi

Code:
$ cat file
1234
3455
24334
234

Code:
$ awk '$0=q $0 q' q="'" file | paste -s -d, | sed 's/.*/(&)/'
('1234','3455','24334','234')

Guru
# 3  
Old 08-29-2012
Like this?
Code:
paste -sd, infile|sed "s/,/','/g;s/^/(/;s/\$/)/"

Or a bit shorter (after looking at Guru's solution Smilie):
Code:
paste -sd, infile|sed "s/,/','/g;s/.*/(&)/"

This User Gave Thanks to elixir_sinari For This Post:
anupdas
# 4  
Old 08-29-2012
Code:
awk -v r="'" 'BEGIN{printf "( "}{$0=r $0 r;if(NR!=1){printf ","};printf "%s", $0}END{print " )"}' filename

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