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Asked: 2026-05-23T09:55:42+00:00

I’m trying to do the following. I’d like to have users provide me a

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I’m trying to do the following. I’d like to have users provide me a file that has a list of IDs in it. It would look like this:

41aeb908-dfc7-4cf8-8285-31ca184dc1c5
da877ffa-49bc-4f07-b692-4873870fcb37
a555cdd0-e100-42cb-a355-140de7958b36

The file may have 10 or 100 of these lines in there. It will vary. I would then like to feed these to a SQL Query using SQLPlus. in order to do that, I am going to need to put quotes around each of these and add commas after each line.

echo "Formatting XIDs for query..."
formattedtxs=`sed -e "s/^/'/g" -e "s/$/'/g" -e "s/$/,/g" $1`

$1 will have the filename to be worked on. Then i have a file that I will be putting these into. 

select distinct tt.transaction_id||','||tt.entity_id||','||cm.user_id
from transaction_tracker tt, course_membership cm
tt.entity_id = cm.course_id and
tt.transaction_id IN (XXXXXXXX);

the idea that I had was to put those XXXXs in there as my template, have sed find that and replace it with my text.

echo "Substituting XIDs into query template..."
sed "s/XXXXXXXX/$formattedtxs/" < query.template >query.tmp

It doesn’t work because it gives the error unterminated `s’ command. I’m guess it is because my formattedtxs variable itself has single quotes in it. Any ideas? The result of the first sed command is this

'41aeb908-dfc7-4cf8-8285-31ca184dc1c5', 'da877ffa-49bc-4f07-b692-4873870fcb37', 'a555cdd0-e100-42cb-a355-140de7958b36', '2b7794f5-9811-4cf3-bd42-1d459d8cb6eb', '6133179e-4e4c-4917-a132-1ee03ab88465', '81343735-e943-4084-ab9f-86f8b5aedfa9',

Bonus points if you can get rid of that last comma.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Save this to file “mksql.bash” or so…

    sed "s/REPLACEME/$(sed "s/.*/'&'/" | paste -s -d, -)/" < template_file.txt

    and use it like:

    bash mksql.bash < your_id_file

    will produce

    select distinct tt.transaction_id||','||tt.entity_id||','||cm.user_id
from transaction_tracker tt, course_membership cm
tt.entity_id = cm.course_id and
tt.transaction_id IN ('41aeb908-dfc7-4cf8-8285-31ca184dc1c5','da877ffa-49bc-4f07-b692-4873870fcb37','a555cdd0-e100-42cb-a355-140de7958b36');

    the “template_file.txt” contain your sql template:

    select distinct tt.transaction_id||','||tt.entity_id||','||cm.user_id
from transaction_tracker tt, course_membership cm
tt.entity_id = cm.course_id and
tt.transaction_id IN (REPLACEME);

    I’ve replaced the much XX..X with the “REPLACEME” because i’m lazy counting Xes

    btw, welcome in SO… 🙂

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