How to each of a list of strings

Shell Programming and Scripting
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I have a string of the form:

file1.txt file2.txt ... filen.txt

I do not know how many files there are or whether they will all be .txt files. I do, however, know that they will be separated by spaces.

My goal is to change the string so that the file names are in the appropriate directory. My desired output is:

$1/file1.txt $1/file2.txt ... $1/filen.txt

I have tried using sed and cannot figure how to make this work. I am using sh.

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echo "file1.txt file2.txt ... filen.txt" | sed 's/\([^ ][^ ]*\)/\$1\1/g'
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Nice.

4 
$ echo "file1.txt file2.txt filen.txt" | ruby -e 'puts gets.split.map{|x|x="$1/"+x}.join(" ")'
$1/file1.txt $1/file2.txt $1/filen.txt
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Assuming, like the solutions above, that you want a literal "$1" prepended to each word (perhaps for future evaluation):

printf '$1/%s ' $str

... or if you want the actual value of $1 subsituted into the output ...

for f in $str; do
    printf '%s ' "$1/$f"
done
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I think alister's is the most elegant, though it leaves str open to wildcard expansion by the shell if you are using any.
Using sed:

sed 's|[^ ][^ ]*|$1/&|g'

similar to ctsgnb's suggestion

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Good point regarding filename expansion, Scrutinizer. Thanks for mentioning it.