How do I write this scipt

[Fonda]

I want to write a script to modify a variable list, like

fruit="apple pear banana"
I want to modiy it to something like
fruit="apple cherry pear banana strawberry"

How do I write this shell command? Thanks

[Steven E. Protter]

maybe the shift command

fruit="apple pear bannana"
var2="stawberry"
fruit="${fruit}${var2}"

echo $fruit

Output is:
apple cherry pear banana strawberry

SEP

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi,

YOu will need to where you are going to add your values. To add cherry after apple and strawberry to the end, I would do the following

fruit=$(echo $fruit|sed -e 's/apple/apple cherry/g' -e 's/$/ strawberry/')

There is a space after strawberry in the second sed statement.
-Sri

[Ronelle van Niekerk]

This will add cherry and strawberry to the end of the other fruits:

fruit="apple pear banana"

fruit="$fruit cherry strawberry"

#echo $fruit
apple pear banana cherry strawberry


You could use awk to add cherry to the middle of the other fruits and strawbwerry to the end:

fruit=`echo $fruit | awk '{print $1_"_cherry_"_$2_"_"_$3_"_strawberry"}'

- replace the underscores with spaces.

[curt larson_1]

you could do something like the attached script does

[Martin Robinson]

It's quite easy.

fruit="apple pear banana"
fruit="apple cherry pear banana strawberry"

.. unless you are trying to perform an operation on the original value, but you don't give enough information on what you are really trying to do.

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