Need help with one-liner

[AceAll]

Folks,

I am trying to append two word in a line. I do not want to cut and store the first and second variable in two different variable and proceed. This is what i am looking for:


Suppose, I got a word "A.C".

I would to change it to "A.B.C.D" where B and D are the new words that needs to be added.

Any pointers?



-Ace

[GNU-Fan]

Have a look into the manual of GNU awk.

[ghostdog74]

$ string="A.C"
$ IFS="."
$ set -- $string
$ echo "$1.B.$2.D"
A.B.C.D

[AceAll]

$ string="A.C"
$ IFS="."
$ set -- $string
$ echo "$1.B.$2.D"
A.B.C.D

Thanks Guys!! Much appreciated.