{"id":1529,"date":"2016-07-12T17:29:09","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T22:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2016-07-12T17:29:09","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T22:29:09","slug":"one-liner-to-convert-a-file-to-a-comma-delimited-list-bash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/2016\/07\/one-liner-to-convert-a-file-to-a-comma-delimited-list-bash\/","title":{"rendered":"One-liner to convert a file to a comma-delimited list (Bash)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code>paste -d, -s filename | sed 's\/,\/\",\"\/g' | sed 's\/^\/\"\/' | sed 's\/$\/\"\/'<\/code><\/p>\n<p><strong>Example:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>file1.txt contains:<\/strong><br \/>\n<code>alpha<br \/>\nbravo<br \/>\ncharlie<br \/>\ndelta<br \/>\necho<\/code><\/p>\n<p><code>paste -d, -s file1.txt | sed 's\/,\/\",\"\/g' | sed 's\/^\/\"\/' | sed 's\/$\/\"\/' &gt; file2.txt<\/code><\/p>\n<p><strong>file2.txt contains:<\/strong><br \/>\n<code>\"alpha\",\"bravo\",\"charlie\",\"delta\",\"echo\"<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>paste -d, -s filename | sed &#8216;s\/,\/&#8221;,&#8221;\/g&#8217; | sed &#8216;s\/^\/&#8221;\/&#8217; | sed &#8216;s\/$\/&#8221;\/&#8217; Example: file1.txt contains: alpha bravo charlie delta echo paste -d, -s file1.txt | sed &#8216;s\/,\/&#8221;,&#8221;\/g&#8217; | sed &#8216;s\/^\/&#8221;\/&#8217; | sed &#8216;s\/$\/&#8221;\/&#8217; &gt; file2.txt file2.txt contains: &#8220;alpha&#8221;,&#8221;bravo&#8221;,&#8221;charlie&#8221;,&#8221;delta&#8221;,&#8221;echo&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[197,407,293],"class_list":["post-1529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-tricks","tag-bash","tag-paste","tag-sed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1539,"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions\/1539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}