Add hash or any character before/after sentence?

Question

I need to add / print a specific number of characters after and before a sentence with a line ..

Example:

I am having below:

SCRIPT OUTPUT

I need to display it as:

#############
SCRIPT OUTPUT
#############

And if it was:

SCRIPT OUTPUT FROM INPUTS

I would need this as:

#########################
SCRIPT OUTPUT FROM INPUTS
#########################

So, it depends on the length of the sentence. For sure, a one line command would be better.

Please show us what you have tried. This is not a free Code-for-me website. — Chem-man17, Dec 13 '16 at 14:27
Have a look here: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/70615/bash-script-echo-output-in-box — Benjamin W., Dec 13 '16 at 14:45
_Very_ similar question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34996057/how-to-generate-a-border-around-a-string-in-bash-shell-script — Benjamin W., Dec 13 '16 at 14:46

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 15 '16 at 08:15

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I managed and got what I needed: Thanks for your help ...

delim='#'
header='string'
echo $header|sed 's/./'$delim'/g'
echo $header
echo $header|sed 's/./'$delim'/g'

answered Dec 15 '16 at 08:15

mshafey

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