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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory


From: Jan Hudec
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 08:42:28 +0200
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On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 21:05:04 +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
> On 2003-09-24 20:13:10 +0100 Miles Bader <address@hidden> wrote:
> >A brace only has a special shell meaning if it occurs by itself (as a 
> >word)
> >or if there's a comma inside some braces.  Bash [...]
> 
> So that's for bash.  tcsh treats {arch} as if it said arch, AFAICT.  
> rc uses braces to group commands.

Bash does too. But braces, unlike parenthesis, are only recognized as
command grouping character at the start of a command.

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                                                 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec 
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