[SOLVED] Linux sed command to wrap yaml date string with single quotes

Issue

I have some files containing yaml where I need to add single quotes around the values of some date fields.

For example:

pubDate: 2016-10-10T08:22:00.000Z

Should be updated to

pubDate: '2016-10-10T08:22:00.000Z'

I think this can be done using something like sed. How can I achieve this?

Solution

Using sed:

sed 's/^pubDate: \([-:.[:alnum:]]\+\)$/pubDate: '"'"'\1'"'"'/' FILE

I assume that pubDate: <timestamp> is the only content on the line.

Answered By - user14967413

Answer Checked By - Cary Denson (WPSolving Admin)