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Re: How does {x..y} supposed to work?


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: How does {x..y} supposed to work?
Date: Thu, 13 May 2021 15:14:33 -0400
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On 5/13/21 12:02 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
According to the manpage, x and y can be single characters. "the
expression expands to each character lexicographically between x and
y, inclusive".

Hmmmmm. So which would be better: "alphabetic character" or "letter"?


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