How to replace a new line with special characters ( ',' ) using sed command

Asked Dec 16 '20 at 08:19

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New line should be replaced with ',' please ignore the brackets only the special characters inside it

I have already tried two commands

sed -i ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/\','/g' test.txt - This command replaces the new line with , but the quotes are not coming

sed -i ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/\'\,\'/g' test.txt - I tried giving escape character for all the three Special characters but this time terminal asks me for next line input i.e ( > )

Example below :

aaa

bbb

ccc

'aaa','bbb','ccc'

edited Dec 16 '20 at 08:28

asked Dec 16 '20 at 08:19

Aravindhan P

But why specifically `sed`? You want to join lines with a comma? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2764051/how-to-join-multiple-lines-of-file-names-into-one-with-custom-delimiter ? Or you want to join lines with 3 characters, apostrophe, comma and another apostrophe? – KamilCuk Dec 16 '20 at 08:20
Yes I want to join lines with 3 characters as you said – Aravindhan P Dec 16 '20 at 08:32
The problem is I'm having those two single quotes, if it is just the comma its easy as the link you shared – Aravindhan P Dec 16 '20 at 08:39
`sed -i ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/'\',\''/g'` – KamilCuk Dec 16 '20 at 08:52
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@KamilCuk Thank you it worked – Aravindhan P Dec 16 '20 at 10:32

How to replace a new line with special characters ( ',' ) using sed command

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