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Hi All,


I am having a text file say xyz which I convert into a file such that all the lines in that xyz file should have a “ on both the side of each line and \r and \n


xyz which need to be converted:
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*%EFILocal [pdl_postscript:postscript]
*%EFILocal [pdl_pcl:pcl]

*%EFILocal [pdl_pjl:pjl]
*%EFILocal [pdl_pdf:pdf]
*%EFILocal [pdl_passthru:passthru]
*%EFILocal [pdl_text:text]

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Converted file: say abc
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"*%EFILocal [pdl_postscript:postscript]\r\n"
"*%EFILocal [pdl_pcl:pcl]\r\n"
“\r\n”
"*%EFILocal [pdl_pjl:pjl]\r\n"
"*%EFILocal [pdl_pdf:pdf]\r\n"
"*%EFILocal [pdl_passthru:passthru]\r\n"
"*%EFILocal [pdl_text:text]\r\n"
“\r\n”
"*%EFILocal [pdl_tiff:tiff]\r\n"
"*%EFILocal [pdl_xwd:xwd]\r\n"

I use the sed utility and did the following:

cat xyz | sed -e 's/\(.*\)$/"\1\\r\\n"/' | tr -d "\r" > abc

But it is not helping for all the lines. For some lien it is working and for some line it is not working at all. For some line it is not feeding " in the begining of the line.

Regards
Gauri Agrawal

Your command should work. Can you give some cases in which your command is not working? Add the anchor symbol and try again

Code:

sed -e 's/^\(.*\)$/"\1\\r\\n"/' xyz | tr -d "\r"

thanks for the quick reply

actuly the following the line
*%EFILocal [invisible_yes:S\x92]

but when copy past only this line put in anothe file and then run sed, it works..

Can u please tell me how to add the anchor symbol. I guess it might be the problem

Thanks & Regards
Gauri Agrawal

Since you need to match everything, you can use the & construct.

Code:

sed -e 's_.*_"&\\r\\n"_g' xyz

Hi Gauri,

Could you please try Vino's solution. "^" is the anchor symbol which matches the pattern in the beginning of the line.

Code:

sed -e 's_.*_"&\\r\\n"_g' xyz

I don't think the global flag is required.

Hi Vino,

It has worked...can you please explain me if time permit u otherwise i will try to understand by my own as at least i got the solution.

Thanks Again
Regards
Gauri

True.

Force of habit !