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MABeatty1978
MABeatty1978

Reputation: 115

Add a character after a specific character and before a character

I have a bash script that I need to insert a ' into it after a ( and before a )

MYSTRING(FOO_1234_BAR)

needs to be

MYSTRING('FOO_1234_BAR')

From what I've been reading, I should be using sed, but I'm having trouble with the syntax.

Thank you.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1300

Answers (2)

RavinderSingh13
RavinderSingh13

Reputation: 133760

EDIT: Adding one more solution simple one of sed if Input_file is same as sample shown.

sed "s/(/&'/;s/)/'&/"  Input_file

Following sed may help you on same.

sed "s/\([^(]\)(\([^)]*\))/\1('\2')/"    Input_file

Output will be as follows.

MYSTRING('FOO_1234_BAR')

In case you want to save output into Input_file itself then use sed -i or in case you need to take backup of Input_file and save the output into Input_file itself then use sed -i.bak in above command.

Upvotes: 2

karakfa
karakfa

Reputation: 67567

another sed

sed "s/(\(.*\))/('\1')/" file

Upvotes: 0

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