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Help building a variable string from a keyword - character replacements!

Hello scripting geniusii! I come to kneel before the alter of your wisdom!

I am looking to take a keyword and replace characters within that keyword and add them to a string variable. I would like this to only go through however many characters the word has, which may vary in size.

Example word - dominos:

Code:

$ echo "dominos" |  sed 's/./_/1; s/./_/2'
__minos
$ echo "dominos" |  sed 's/./_/1; s/./_/3'
_o_inos
$ echo "dominos" |  sed 's/./_/1; s/./_/4'
_om_nos
$ echo "dominos" |  sed 's/./_/1; s/./_/5'
_omi_os
$ echo "dominos" |  sed 's/./_/1; s/./_/6'
_omin_s
$ echo "dominos" |  sed 's/./_/1; s/./_/7'
_omino_
$ echo "dominos" |  sed 's/./_/2; s/./_/3'
d__inos
$ echo "dominos" |  sed 's/./_/2; s/./_/4'
d_m_nos
$ echo "dominos" |  sed 's/./_/2; s/./_/5'
d_mi_os
$ echo "dominos" |  sed 's/./_/2; s/./_/6'
d_min_s
$ echo "dominos" |  sed 's/./_/2; s/./_/7'
d_mino_
   ...

In the end state, I would like it to look like this:

Code:

KEYWORD="__minos _o_inos _om_nos _omi_os _omin_s _omino_ d__inos d_m_nos d_mi_os d_min_s ... "

I am doing this today manually, creating my "KEYWORD" variable, but I'm trying to tidy this all up and make my script pull the current working directory and use that as the keyword variable base, so that my script can be standardized over several different keywords I'm working with.

Hope this makes some sense, and Thanks so much in advance for your thoughts!

Dave aka Ghan

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locale

LOCALE(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						 LOCALE(1)

NAME

     locale -- display locale settings

SYNOPSIS

     locale [-a|m]
     locale [-ck] name [...]

DESCRIPTION

     locale displays information about the current locale, or a list of all available locales.

     When locale is run with no arguments, it will display the current source of each locale category.

     When locale is given the name of a category, it acts as if it had been given each keyword in that category.  For each keyword it is given,
     the current value is displayed.

OPTIONS

     -a       Lists all public locales.

     -c name ...
	      Lists the category name before each keyword, unless it is the same category as the previously displayed keyword.

     -k name ...
	      Displays the name of each keyword prior to its value.

     -m       Lists all available public charmaps.  Darwin locales do not support charmaps, so list all CODESETs instead.

OPERANDS

     The following operand is supported:

     name is the name of a keyword or category to display.  A list of all keywords and categories can be shown with the following command:

     locale -ck LC_ALL

ENVIRONMENT

     LANG	  Used as a substitute for any unset LC_* variable.  If LANG is unset, it will act as if set to "C".  If any of LANG or LC_* are
		  set to invalid values, locale acts as if they are all unset.

     LC_ALL	  Will override the setting of all other LC_* variables.

     LC_COLLATE   Sets the locale for the LC_COLLATE category.

     LC_CTYPE	  Sets the locale for the LC_CTYPE category.

     LC_MESSAGES  Sets the locale for the LC_MESSAGES category.

     LC_MONETARY  Sets the locale for the LC_MONETARY category.

     LC_NUMERIC   Sets the locale for the LC_NUMERIC category.

     LC_TIME	  Sets the locale for the LC_TIME category.

SEE ALSO

     localedef(1), localeconv(3), nl_langinfo(3), setlocale(3)

STANDARDS

     The locale utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1'').

HISTORY

     locale appeared in Mac OS X 10.4

Darwin								  August 27, 2004							    Darwin

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