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

I think the sed and awk are the best solution but if you want to use just shell here is small script for you.

#!/bin/bash

chr="\""
file="file.txt"
cp $file $file."_backup"
while read -r line
do
 echo "${chr}$line${chr}"
done <$file > newfile
mv newfile $file