Question

If I have a list of data in a text file seperated by a new line, is there a way to append something to the start, then the data, then append something else then the data again?

EG a field X would become new X = X;

Can you do this with bash or sed or just unix tools like cut?

EDIT:

I am trying to get ‘ITEM_SITE_ID :{$row[‘ITEM_SITE_ID’]}
‘ .

I am using this line awk ‘{ print ‘\”$1 ‘ {:$row[‘$1’]}
‘ }’

And I get this ‘ITEM_SITE_ID {:$row[]}

What have I missed?

Answer 1

I think the problem is your single quotes are not properly escaped, which is actually impossible to do.

With sed:

sed 's/\(.*\)/\1 = \1;/' 

Or in your case:

sed 's/\(.*\)/\'\1 :{\$row['\1']}\'/' 

And with bash:

while read line do     echo '\'$line :{\$row['$line']}\'' done 

And actually you can do it in awk using bashes $” strings:

awk $'{ print '\\'' $1 ' :{$row[\'' $1 '\']}\\'' }'