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Cool!...somehow pipe fitting is more intuitive to my biologist brain, than figuring out prefix and suffix patters...

Ah nice! I think I can probably benefit from the long code since it make me think about the nuts and bolts. This is a steep learning curve. Thanks.

OK so I figured out what each part of that little script in the for loop (along with why you use curly brackets when calling a variable)

a="${temp%-*}" ##cuts everything after the c off of the...

Thank you sir.
I see what you're doing.
1. you set the template
2. you set the variables
3. there's a "for-loop"
a. I guess now I have to familiarize myself with variable assignment and...

Ah...sorry I think I was a bit unclear.
My goal is to take a file with name "file.a.b.c-d.r" and produce 4 exact copies of it with 4 different names:
"file.a.b.1-A.r"
"file.a.b.1-B.r"...

Thanks vgersh99!
so, this "listOfFilesFile" should be a directory I should have already created and where the new files will be dumped to?

I have one file "file.a.b.c-d.r" that I would like to use to spawn 4 other files:

"file.a.b.1-A.r"
"file.a.b.1-B.r"
"file.a.b.1-C.r"
"file.a.b.1-D.r"

where the field "c-d" changes into my 1...