One-liner to convert a file to a comma-delimited list (Bash)

paste -d, -s filename | sed 's/,/","/g' | sed 's/^/"/' | sed 's/$/"/'

Example:

file1.txt contains:
alpha bravo charlie delta echo

paste -d, -s file1.txt | sed 's/,/","/g' | sed 's/^/"/' | sed 's/$/"/' > file2.txt

file2.txt contains:
"alpha","bravo","charlie","delta","echo"

2 thoughts on “One-liner to convert a file to a comma-delimited list (Bash)”

jkdba says:

15 Jul 2016 at 4:04 pm

Cool! I found the challenge interesting so I came up with one too.

sed -e ‘:a;N;$!ba;s/\n/”,”/g;s/^/”/;s/$/”/’ file2.txt
jkdba says:

15 Jul 2016 at 4:06 pm

Ooops .. doesn’t like my formatting:

sed -e ‘:a;N;$!ba;s/\n/”,”/g;s/^/”/;s/$/”/’ file1.txt

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