Input file:
$ cat /tmp/file.txt
Computer programming:Zia:78
discrete mathematics:Nil:82
Quantum physics:Leni:91
biomedical engineering:Qureg:82
computer architecture:Anu:90
Required output:
Top in 'Computer programming' : 'Zia'
Top in 'discrete mathematics' : 'Nil'
Top in 'Quantum physics' : 'Leni'
Top in 'biomedical engineering' : 'Qureg'
Top in 'computer architecture' : 'Anu'
i.e.
Top in '1st field' : '2nd field'
Using awk variable assignment technique, i.e. assigning the value 'single quote' to the variable x below:
$ awk -F: -v x="'" '
{print "Top in",x$1x,":",x$2x}
' /tmp/file.txt
And to use "double-quote":
$ awk -F: -v x="\"" '
{print "Top in",x$1x,":",x$2x}
' /tmp/file.txt
Top in "Computer programming" : "Zia"
Top in "discrete mathematics" : "Nil"
Top in "Quantum physics" : "Leni"
Top in "biomedical engineering" : "Qureg"
Top in "computer architecture" : "Anu"
Another solution will be to use the ASCII for 'single colon':
$ awk -F: '
{print "Top in","\x27"$1"\x27",":","\x27"$2"\x27"}
' /tmp/file.txt
Since number of fields in the input file is very few, we can try this using 'sed'; something like:
$ sed "
s_\(.*\):\(.*\):\(.*\)_Top in '\1' : '\2'_g
" /tmp/file.txt
Above, as you can see I am using underscore symbol in place of common slash "/" (just to avoid confusion)
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## Sed
eval "`echo 'NL=qtq' | tr 'qt' '\047\012'`"
# escape $q to be acceptable to sed in the RHS of s///
case $q in "$NL" | '\' | '/' ) Eq="\\$q";; * ) Eq=$q;; esac
< $if sed -e "
s/:/\n/2; s/\n.*//
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"
## Perl
< $if perl -F\: -spale '
$_ = join $", (q{Top in}, map("$q$_$q",@F[0,1]), q(:))[0,1,3,2];
' -- -q="$q"
## Bash
while IFS= read -r line
do
IFS=':'; set -f; set -- $line
printf 'Top in %s : %s\n' "$q$1$q" "$q$2$q"
done < $if
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