sed script for key:value to csv

I had files with one key-value pair per line, e.g.:

Acquired Name: foo
Acquired Date: 1066-10-14T10:00:00Z
etc.

I wanted to extract all of the fields to one CSV line per file.

This is the sed script that I used. As it happens, this would also work if all of the input files were concatenated (because I used the ‘d’ command rather than ‘q’).

/Acquired Name:/ { 
  s/.*Acquired Name: \(.*\)./"\1"/ ; h ; }
/Acquired Date:/ {
  s/.*Acquired Date: \(.*\)./"\1"/ ; x ; G ; s/\n/,/M ; h ; }
/Acquired Time:/ {
  s/.*Acquired Time: \(.*\)./"\1"/ ; x ; G ;
  s/\n/,/M ; h ; }
/Job Code:/ {
  s/.*Job Code: \(.*\)./"\1"/ ; x ; G ;
  s/\n/,/M ; h ; }
/Instrument:/ {
  s/.*Instrument: \(.*\)./"\1"/ ; x ; G ;
  s/\n/,/M ; h ; }
/Bottle Number:/ {
  s/.*Bottle Number: \(.*\)./"\1"/ ; x ; G ;
  s/\n/,/M ; h ; }
/Inlet Method:/ {
  s/.*Inlet Method: \(.*\)./"\1"/ ; x ; G ;
  s/\n/,/M ; h ; }
/MS Method:/ {
  s/.*MS Method: \(.*\)./"\1"/ ; x ; G ;
  s/\n/,/M ; h ; }
/Tune Method:/ {
  s/.*Tune Method: \(.*\)./"\1"/ ; x ; G ;
  s/\n/,/M ; p ; d ; }

The manual for sed
<https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/sed.html>
explains the commands used:

• d – Delete the pattern space; immediately start next cycle with next input line.
• h – Copy the pattern space to the hold space
• G – Append the hold space to the pattern space
• p – Print the pattern space
• s/pattern/replacement/ – Substitute pattern with replacement
• s/pattern/replacement/M – Do multi-line substitution; see this
• x – Exchange the pattern space and the hold space