How to enclose every line in a file in double quotes with sed?

Asked 2011-07-01T23:15:54.570

This is what I tried: sed -i 's/^.*/"$&"/' myFile.txt

It put a $ at the beginning of every line.

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You almost got it right. Try this slightly modified version:

sed 's/^.*$/"&"/g' file.txt

answered 2011-07-01T23:36:24.710