single quote

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi

I have a shell script with many lines as below:

comment on column dcases.proj_seq_num is dcases_1sq;
....
....

I want the above script to be as below:

comment on column dcases.proj_seq_num is 'dcases_1sq';

I want to have single quotes like that as above for the entire shell script in the 6th position.

thanks

2

It seem to be like output of the script, but not clear

Can you please post sample of the script you had tried ?

3

Try the following awk script:

$1 != "comment"  { print }
$1 == "comment" {
                 changed = substr($6, 0, length($6) - 1)
                 printf("%s %s %s %s %s '%s';\n", $1, $2, $3, $4, $5, changed )
                        }

awk -f awkscriptfile scriptfile > newscriptfile