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Originally Posted by springs

same thing i wanted to try using file
but it is not working
inputfile.txt
content is "ABC CDF ADF FDG HAA AHH AHA"

this works
if follows wht cherry have written
sed 's/$[a-zA-Z]\{3\}$/\"&\"/g' <input.text

where urs input.txt contains contents ABC CDF ADF FDG HAA AHH AHA..
check

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Hi,

I hope the following will give the required output:

echo '"'`sed 's/ /" "/g' ns.txt`'"'

The file ns.txt will have ABC CDF ADF FDG HAA AHH AHA

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