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Re: Brace expansion inside of command substitution - broken or is it me?
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Brace expansion inside of command substitution - broken or is it me? |
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Sat, 19 Feb 2011 10:29:05 -0500 |
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On 2/19/11 6:13 AM, Peter Hofmann wrote:
> Aha, I see. I've read that part about "strictly textual" and "performed
> before all other expansions" in the manual, but I didn't realize all the
> consequences. This means that my quotes get interpreted *after* the
> brace expansion is done, right?
Well, more or less. The word has to be quoted well enough to make it
past the parser, but the rest of the expansions that pay attention to
the quotes happen after brace expansion and work on its results.
Chet
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