Re: Brace expansion ordering vs. parameter expansion

[Chet Ramey]

On 4/29/21 12:59 PM, Tom (AST) Watson wrote:
> All...
>
> I've resigned to having it the way it is, but I note that the solution doesn't 
> need the backslash escape:
> [tsw@box6 ~]$ k=10
> [tsw@box6 ~]$ eval echo {1..$k}
> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

This one doesn't, but putting in the slash skips the first brace
expansion entirely, instead of relying on the degenerate brace expansion
to be left unchanged, so it's safer in general.

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