Re: brace expansion and variable expansion

[Paul Jarc]

Gregory Seidman <bug.bash.gseidman@spamgourmet.com> wrote:
> There is no mention of it in the man page as far as I could see.

The second paragraph under "EXPANSION":
       The  order  of expansions is: brace expansion, tilde expansion, parame-
       ter, variable and arithmetic expansion and command  substitution  (done
       in a left-to-right fashion), word splitting, and pathname expansion.

> And even documented, I'd consider it a bug.

"Bug" does not mean "design decision you happen to disagree with".
Note that you can still get what you want:
eval "cat /tmp/stuff/{$SELFILES}" | sort > /tmp/stuff/foobarbaz


paul