Re: incorrect brace expansion

[Mike Frysinger]

On Sunday 29 January 2006 17:25, Bob Proulx wrote:
> The bash manual documents this as "Patterns to be brace expanded take
> the form of an optional PREAMBLE, followed by either a series of
> comma-separated strings or a sequnce expression between a pair of
> braces, followed by an optional POSTSCRIPT."  Your example did not
> have either comma-separated strings nor a sequence and therefore does
> not qualify for brace expansion and should have been left verbatim.
> And yet bash did brace expansion anyway.  That is an inconsistency.

a-{b}-c was not brace expanded, ok, good

a-{b{d,e}}-c was "expanded" too many times ... the output should have been 
a-{bd}-c a-{be}-c ... just cause csh does it differently doesnt really matter 
imo

as you pointed out, the docs say that the brace expansion should only happen 
when commas or sequence expressions are used, and while the inner braces used 
commads, the outer braces did not
-mike