Add double quotes around fields in AWK script output?

Question

I have written an awk script that converts a distributor flatfile into a CSV importable into Magento. This file is semi-colon delimited.

It is not putting quotes around

Answer 1

To add quotes around the entries you could use a simple AWK loop:

Script - simple_loop.awk

BEGIN {FS=";"}
{
  for(i=1;i

For instance

echo "admin;base;5.11 HOLSTER SHIRT L WHITE;;" | awk -f simple_loop.awk

Should output

"admin";"base";"5.11 HOLSTER SHIRT L WHITE";"";""