How to replace placeholder character or word in variable with value from another variable in Bash?

Question

I\'m trying to write a simple Bash script. I have a simple \"template\" variable:

template = \"my*appserver\"

I then have a function (

Answer 1

Yeah, either 'sed' as the others have said, or start with your template in 2 separate variables and construct on the fly. e.g.

templateprefix="my"
templatesuffix="appserver"

server=get_env

template=${templateprefix}${server}${templatesuffix}