scripting text replacement

[Daniel Howard]

On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 10:43 AM, bsd <bsd at todoo.biz> wrote:

> I have a file containing a list of items like that:
>
> line1item1 line1item2 line1item3
> line2item1 line2item2 line2item3
> …400 times
>
> I need to insert this into another text file using printf() items should be
> converted into variable looping… like that:
>
> printf "Bla bla bla $1 bla bla $2 bla bla $3 bla bla $2"

awk '{print "Bla bla bla "$1" bla bla "$2" bla bla "$3" bla bla "$2}'
< file.txt > file-bla-bla-bla.txt

-d

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