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Re: is a for .. do list newline sensitive ?


From: Zachary Santer
Subject: Re: is a for .. do list newline sensitive ?
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2023 15:26:10 -0400

On Sat, Oct 14, 2023 at 9:26 AM alex xmb sw ratchev <fxmbsw7@gmail.com>
wrote:

> mv "$p"{,."$r"}
>

I was actually really surprised that this all expands the way you want. I
guess that's just parameter expansion happening after brace expansion, like
the manual says:

> Brace expansion is performed before any other expansions, and any
> characters special to other expansions are preserved in the result.
>

Would be nice if
{${start}..${end}..${incr}}
didn't just expand to
{0..10..2}
without calling eval, but oh well.


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