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I want to use awk to print all values in a delimited string with a static suffix appended to each one.

Input:

stack,over,flow

Delimiter:

Comma

Output:

stack suffix, over suffix, flow suffix

awk -F ',' -v OFS=',' -vpre="prefix" -vsuf="suffix" 
 ' for (i=1;i<=NF;++i) $i = pre $i suf; print '

For the input

unix,and,linux

this would produce

prefixunixsuffix,prefixandsuffix,prefixlinuxsuffix

The awk program modifies each field in a loop by adding a prefix and a suffix. The prefix and suffix strings are passed into the awk programs through assignments to the pre and suf variables on the command line.

To add a space as prefix and the string suffix (with an initial space) as suffix, you would use

awk -F ',' -v OFS=',' -vpre=" " -vsuf=" suffix" 
 ' for (i=1;i<=NF;++i) $i = pre $i suf; print '

which produces

 unix suffix, and suffix, linux suffix

Another Awk variant - making use of the internal output separators to avoid an explicit loop:

awk -F, -v s=' suffix' 'BEGINOFS= s FS " "; ORS= s RS $1=$1 1'

ex.

echo 'stack,over,flow' | awk -F, -v s=' suffix' 'BEGINOFS= s FS " "; ORS= s RS $1=$1 1'
stack suffix, over suffix, flow suffix

For space separated output you can append the default output field separator to the suffix

$ echo 'stack,over,flow' | awk -F, -v s=' suffix' 'BEGINOFS= s OFS; ORS= s RS $1=$1 1'
stack suffix over suffix flow suffix

awk -F , 'print $1" suffix", $2" suffix", $3" suffix"' OFS=", " suffix

awk -F , Sets the field separator as ,

print $1" suffix", and so on and so forth prints a space and then suffix after the value

OFS=", " Sets the output field separator as a comma with a space.

Output:

 stack suffix, over suffix, flow suffix