How to add double quotes to a line with SED or AWK?

Question

I have the following list of words:

name,id,3

I need to have it double quoted like this:

\"name,id,3\"

I

Answer 1

Before using sed command, you can use \ as escape character then it will print " in your string. As an example, i put the similar string to first line of a text file with below command:

var = "\"name,id,3\""
sed -i '1i' "$var" /tmp/out.txt