How to manipulate a string, variable in shell

[dhimok]

Hei everyone!

I have this variable in shell containing paths separated by
a space:

LINE="/path/to/manipulate1 /path/to/manipulate2"

I want to add additional path string in the beginning of the string and as well right after the space so that the variable will have the result something like this:

LINE="/additional/path1/to/path/to/manipulate1 /additional/path2/to/path/to/manipulate2"

Any help appreciated
Thanks in advance

[rski]

Do you want o to add two different directories?

/additional/path1
/additional/path2

Do this path can be somehow calculated from original paths, is this correlation ok

/path/to/manipulate1 -> add /additional/path1
/path/to/manipulate2 -> add /additional/path2
/path/to/manipulate3 -> add /additional/path3
...

[numberwhun]

To add paths to the variable in the shell, simply do the following:

export LINE = "$LINE /new/path/1 /new/path/2"

You first put the current variable in the list and then add any after it.

Regards,

Jeff

[kwarnke]

$ LINE="/path/to/manipulate1 /path/to/manipulate2"
$ set -- $LINE
$ LINE="/additional/path1/to$1 /additional/path2/to$2"