Bash - how to put each line within quotation

Question

I want to put each line within quotation marks, such as:

abcdefg
hijklmn
opqrst

convert to:

\"abcdefg\"
\"hijklmn\"
\"opqrs         


        

Answer 1

This sed should work for ignoring empty lines as well:

sed -i.bak 's/^..*$/"&"/' inFile

or

sed 's/^.\{1,\}$/"&"/' inFile