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Re: $${a,b} brace expansion flaw.


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: $${a,b} brace expansion flaw.
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2024 14:58:05 -0500
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On 1/20/24 6:50 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:

Hot mess! :)

Indeed.  Small wonder the implementation opted for something simple
and straightforward, especially when the workaround is trivial:

The goal was to teach brace expansion as little shell syntax as possible,
since it was intended to be as independent as possible.

--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
                 ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/

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