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Re: Documentation issue: Increments in brace expansion
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Documentation issue: Increments in brace expansion |
Date: |
Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:33:36 -0400 |
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Jan Schampera wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Brace-Expansion
>
> The brace expansion increment syntax is shown wrong.
>
> OLD:
>
> A sequence expression takes the form {x..y[incr]}, where x and y are
> either integers or single characters, and incr, an optional increment,
> is an integer.
>
>
> PROPOSED NEW:
>
> A sequence expression takes the form {x..y[..incr]}, where x and y are
> either integers or single characters, and incr, an optional increment,
> is an integer separated by `..'.
>
>
>
>
> Sorry if this already is fixed in the base documents, I didn't have time
> to check deeply.
It is already fixed. Thanks for the catch.
Chet
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