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How to add a ' character in awk

Original Message

Name: abhijits
Date: March 22, 2007 at 03:38:54 Pacific
Subject: How to add a ' character in awk
OS: HPUX
CPU/Ram: 1GB
Model/Manufacturer: HP

Comment:

Hi,
I want to add the single quote to the beginning and end of all the strings contained in a file.
i.e. my file is like
abc
dfg
hjk
and i want an output like
'abc'
'dfg'
hjk'
Using sed / awk i am not able to put the ' character .. i am somehow not able to escape this character

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Response Number 1

Name: nails
Date: March 22, 2007 at 09:52:03 Pacific
Subject: How to add a ' character in awk

Reply: (edit)

sed "s&^&'&g" myfile | sed "s&$&'&g"

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