Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi

I need some help on SED command

I am writing a shell script which does the following:

1. Read one line at a time from a file abc.txt which has millions of lines

2. Prefix each line read with some text "

3. Post fix each line read with a quote "

4. Write the new modified line to a new file xyz.txt

5. This should happen for all the lines in abc.txt and the data should be written to xyz.txt linewise


If some body could help, if would just awesome.


Tnx

This smells like a homework question. If it isn't what is the "real world problem" of your question and what have you done to attempt to solve this problem yourself?

I have never used sed before, i tried searching on google but of no avail, i know it has a very simple solution for someone who has already used sed......

could somebody reply with a solution?

I have never used sed before, i tried searching on google but of no avail, i know it has a very simple solution for someone who has already used sed......

could somebody reply with a solution?

You can start here:
Sed - An Introduction and Tutorial

Thanks buddy, I will try to solve it by going thru this link......

i tried..

sed "s/^/prefix/;s/\n/sufix/" oldfile > newfile

but it is only adds the prefix...