Sed/Awk line double

Question

I have a list like this.

• Bob
• Jim
• Steve

Is there a way in bash to turn that into a list like this?

• <a href="http://example.com/Bob"> Bob
• <a href="http://example.com/Jim"> Jim
• <a href="http://example.com/Steve"> Steve

Answer 1

This should work fine:

#/usr/bin/env bash

while read n; do
    echo "<a href=\"http://example.com/${n}\">${n}</a>"
done < ${1}

If you made that a script, then you would call it with ./scriptname.sh filename.txt and it just prints it to the console. (Note: I extrapolated your question to include a </a> as well.)