Add multiple suffixes to a string-CodePudding

I want to append suffixes in a range to a string foo located in file. The file is guaranteed to have just one line with the string.

I have been able to do this in Bash with:

for num in {001..003}; do
  echo $(cat file) $num
done

Which outputs the desired:

foo 001
foo 002
foo 003

But I was wondering if there's a better way to do it without the for loop.

I've tried things like:

$ echo $(cat file) {001..003}
foo 001 002 003
$ echo {001..003} | cat file -
foo
001 002 003

CodePudding user response：

You can use printf in bash:

s=$(<file)
printf "$s %s\n" {001..003}

foo 001
foo 002
foo 003

Assuming content of file doesn't contain any printf formatting directive.