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Old 01-02-2009
Christoph Spohr Christoph Spohr is offline
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Hi,

commands:

Code:
IFS=,$IFS && read 1 2 3 4 <<< "abc,def,ghi,jkl"
string="pre_${1}_suf,pre_${2}_suf,pre_${3}_suf,pre_${4}_suf"

output echo $string:

Code:
pre_abc_suf,pre_def_suf,pre_ghi_suf,pre_jkl_suf

HTH Chris