comma separated values to single inverted quote and comma separated values

Question

I have data as

    abc,defg,hijklm,op,qrs,tuv

I want this data to be converted to

    \'abc\',\'defg\',\'hijklm\',\'op\',         


        

Answer 1

Using awk gsub function. Here all the "," are replaced by ',' and start and the end of the line is replaced by "'".

echo $x |awk -v q="'" '{gsub(/,/, q "&" q);gsub(/^|$/,q)}1'
'abc','defg','hijklm','op','qrs','tuv'