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

Question

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

It put a $ at the beginning of every line.

Answer 1

shorter

sed 's/.*/"&"/'

without spaces

sed 's/ *\(.*\) *$/"\1"/'

skip empty lines

sed '/^ *$/d;s/.*/"&"/'