Re: brace expansion and variable expansion

[Chet Ramey]

> On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 06:38:18PM -0500, Chet Ramey wrote:
> } Gregory Seidman wrote:
> } >Brace expansion does not occur after variable expansion. 
> } 
> } As is stated fairly clearly in the documentation.
> 
> Is this documentation other than the man page? There is no mention of it
> in the man page as far as I could see. And even documented, I'd consider
> it a bug.

How's this?

       Brace expansion is performed before any other expansions, and any char-
       acters  special to other expansions are preserved in the result.  It is
       strictly textual.  Bash does not apply any syntactic interpretation  to
       the context of the expansion or the text between the braces.

This is from the BRACE EXPANSION section.

Chet

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