What is an efficient way to replace list of strings with another list in Unix file?

Question

Suppose I have two lists of strings (list A and list B) with the exact same number of entries, N, in each list, and I want to replace all occurrences of the the nth element

Answer 1

you can do this in bash. Get your lists into arrays.

listA=(a b c)
listB=(d e f)
data=$(