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  • Who told you to use command a[bc]d?

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    It certainly has its uses if one understands it correctly.

    – Weijun Zhou
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    I guess I just don't understand how the confusion between the two happened.

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  • I have been explicitly asked by a coworker less familiar with Linux on this, although not recently.

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  • Who told you to use command a[bc]d?

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    18 hours ago






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    It certainly has its uses if one understands it correctly.

    – Weijun Zhou
    18 hours ago






  • 2





    I guess I just don't understand how the confusion between the two happened.

    – Jesse_b
    18 hours ago











  • I have been explicitly asked by a coworker less familiar with Linux on this, although not recently.

    – Weijun Zhou
    18 hours ago














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  • Who told you to use command a[bc]d?

    – Jesse_b
    18 hours ago






  • 2





    It certainly has its uses if one understands it correctly.

    – Weijun Zhou
    18 hours ago






  • 2





    I guess I just don't understand how the confusion between the two happened.

    – Jesse_b
    18 hours ago











  • I have been explicitly asked by a coworker less familiar with Linux on this, although not recently.

    – Weijun Zhou
    18 hours ago


















  • Who told you to use command a[bc]d?

    – Jesse_b
    18 hours ago






  • 2





    It certainly has its uses if one understands it correctly.

    – Weijun Zhou
    18 hours ago






  • 2





    I guess I just don't understand how the confusion between the two happened.

    – Jesse_b
    18 hours ago











  • I have been explicitly asked by a coworker less familiar with Linux on this, although not recently.

    – Weijun Zhou
    18 hours ago

















Who told you to use command a[bc]d?

– Jesse_b
18 hours ago





Who told you to use command a[bc]d?

– Jesse_b
18 hours ago




2




2





It certainly has its uses if one understands it correctly.

– Weijun Zhou
18 hours ago





It certainly has its uses if one understands it correctly.

– Weijun Zhou
18 hours ago




2




2





I guess I just don't understand how the confusion between the two happened.

– Jesse_b
18 hours ago





I guess I just don't understand how the confusion between the two happened.

– Jesse_b
18 hours ago













I have been explicitly asked by a coworker less familiar with Linux on this, although not recently.

– Weijun Zhou
18 hours ago






I have been explicitly asked by a coworker less familiar with Linux on this, although not recently.

– Weijun Zhou
18 hours ago











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The two are quite different.



a[bc]d is a filename pattern. It will expand to the two filenames abd and acd if those are names of existing files in the current directory.



  • The [...] part is a bracketed expression that matches a single character out of the ones listed. In this pattern, the character between a and d must be either a b or a c for the pattern to match.


  • If abd exists, but acd does not, then it would only expand to abd, and vice versa. By default, the pattern would remain unexpanded if there was no matching filename.


ab,cd is a brace expansion (in shells that support these). It will expand to the two strings abd and acd.



  • The ... part is a comma-delimited set of strings (in this example; it may also be a range such as a..k or 20..25), and the expansion is computed by combining each of these strings with the flanking strings a and d.


  • The expansion happens regardless of whether these strings corresponds to existing filenames or not.


If you are constructing strings, use a brace expansion. If you are matching filenames, use a filename pattern.






share|improve this answer

























  • Thank you for clarifying "If abd exists, but acd does not, then it would only expand to abd". I guess that is what is missing from my answer.

    – Weijun Zhou
    17 hours ago






  • 2





    Another crucial difference is that in ab,cd, the b and c parts don't need to be single letters; e.g. exten,cision. While ex[tenci]sion or whatever will only match one of these letters.

    – alexis
    1 hour ago











  • @alexis Thanks, I've made some changes.

    – Kusalananda
    1 hour ago


















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a[bc]d is pattern-matching, and is part of the POSIX standard. In POSIX, this is introduced as the "pattern bracket expression". It is documented in section 2.13 of the manual




When unquoted and outside a bracket expression, the following three
characters shall have special meaning in the specification of
patterns:



    ?

      A question-mark is a pattern that shall match any character.

    *

      An asterisk is a pattern that shall match multiple characters, as
      described in Patterns Matching Multiple Characters.

    [

      The open bracket shall introduce a pattern bracket expression.


Section 2.13.3 also mentions something that it behaves differently from what one would expect for usual regexs when it is used for filename expansion (emphasis by me)




The rules described so far in Patterns Matching a Single Character and
Patterns Matching Multiple Characters are qualified by the following
rules that apply when pattern matching notation is used for filename
expansion:



The slash character in a pathname shall be explicitly matched by using
one or more slashes in the pattern; it shall neither be matched by the
asterisk or question-mark special characters nor by a bracket
expression. Slashes in the pattern shall be identified before bracket
expressions;
thus, a slash cannot be included in a pattern bracket
expression used for filename expansion. If a slash character is found
following an unescaped open square bracket character before a
corresponding closing square bracket is found, the open bracket shall
be treated as an ordinary character. For example, the pattern
"a[b/c]d" does not match such pathnames as abd or a/d.
It only matches a pathname of literally a[b/c]d.




ab,cd is braces expansion, it is not in the specification by POSIX. Here is the corresponding part from the bash manual (emphasis by me):




Brace expansion is a mechanism by which arbitrary strings may be
generated. This mechanism is similar to filename expansion (see
Filename Expansion), but the filenames generated need not exist.
Patterns to be brace expanded take the form of an optional preamble,
followed by either a series of comma-separated strings or a sequence
expression between a pair of braces, followed by an optional
postscript. The preamble is prefixed to each string contained within
the braces, and the postscript is then appended to each resulting
string, expanding left to right.




According to the comment by @mosvy, this first appeared from csh but the behavior in bash is different from csh and other shells. This type of braces expansion is also present in glob(3).



There is another type of braces expansion a..z that only appeared after bash 3.0, and there are more added in bash 4.0.



In a shell where globbing is turned on, execute in a empty folder, the following result is returned



$ echo a[bc]d
a[bc]d
$ echo ab,cd
abd acd


In response to @Jesse_b's comment, if you are in an interactive shell and both of them applies, a[bc]d is less trouble typing. For example grep pattern [ab][12].txt.






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    The brace expansion is not a "bashism"; it first appeared in csh, long before bash. It's also present in the glob(3) library function. The difference is that in bash it's performed before other expansions: a=A; ab=A/B; ac=A/C; echo $ab,c will work in bash differently from any other shell.

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The two are quite different.



a[bc]d is a filename pattern. It will expand to the two filenames abd and acd if those are names of existing files in the current directory.



  • The [...] part is a bracketed expression that matches a single character out of the ones listed. In this pattern, the character between a and d must be either a b or a c for the pattern to match.


  • If abd exists, but acd does not, then it would only expand to abd, and vice versa. By default, the pattern would remain unexpanded if there was no matching filename.


ab,cd is a brace expansion (in shells that support these). It will expand to the two strings abd and acd.



  • The ... part is a comma-delimited set of strings (in this example; it may also be a range such as a..k or 20..25), and the expansion is computed by combining each of these strings with the flanking strings a and d.


  • The expansion happens regardless of whether these strings corresponds to existing filenames or not.


If you are constructing strings, use a brace expansion. If you are matching filenames, use a filename pattern.






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  • Thank you for clarifying "If abd exists, but acd does not, then it would only expand to abd". I guess that is what is missing from my answer.

    – Weijun Zhou
    17 hours ago






  • 2





    Another crucial difference is that in ab,cd, the b and c parts don't need to be single letters; e.g. exten,cision. While ex[tenci]sion or whatever will only match one of these letters.

    – alexis
    1 hour ago











  • @alexis Thanks, I've made some changes.

    – Kusalananda
    1 hour ago















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The two are quite different.



a[bc]d is a filename pattern. It will expand to the two filenames abd and acd if those are names of existing files in the current directory.



  • The [...] part is a bracketed expression that matches a single character out of the ones listed. In this pattern, the character between a and d must be either a b or a c for the pattern to match.


  • If abd exists, but acd does not, then it would only expand to abd, and vice versa. By default, the pattern would remain unexpanded if there was no matching filename.


ab,cd is a brace expansion (in shells that support these). It will expand to the two strings abd and acd.



  • The ... part is a comma-delimited set of strings (in this example; it may also be a range such as a..k or 20..25), and the expansion is computed by combining each of these strings with the flanking strings a and d.


  • The expansion happens regardless of whether these strings corresponds to existing filenames or not.


If you are constructing strings, use a brace expansion. If you are matching filenames, use a filename pattern.






share|improve this answer

























  • Thank you for clarifying "If abd exists, but acd does not, then it would only expand to abd". I guess that is what is missing from my answer.

    – Weijun Zhou
    17 hours ago






  • 2





    Another crucial difference is that in ab,cd, the b and c parts don't need to be single letters; e.g. exten,cision. While ex[tenci]sion or whatever will only match one of these letters.

    – alexis
    1 hour ago











  • @alexis Thanks, I've made some changes.

    – Kusalananda
    1 hour ago













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The two are quite different.



a[bc]d is a filename pattern. It will expand to the two filenames abd and acd if those are names of existing files in the current directory.



  • The [...] part is a bracketed expression that matches a single character out of the ones listed. In this pattern, the character between a and d must be either a b or a c for the pattern to match.


  • If abd exists, but acd does not, then it would only expand to abd, and vice versa. By default, the pattern would remain unexpanded if there was no matching filename.


ab,cd is a brace expansion (in shells that support these). It will expand to the two strings abd and acd.



  • The ... part is a comma-delimited set of strings (in this example; it may also be a range such as a..k or 20..25), and the expansion is computed by combining each of these strings with the flanking strings a and d.


  • The expansion happens regardless of whether these strings corresponds to existing filenames or not.


If you are constructing strings, use a brace expansion. If you are matching filenames, use a filename pattern.






share|improve this answer















The two are quite different.



a[bc]d is a filename pattern. It will expand to the two filenames abd and acd if those are names of existing files in the current directory.



  • The [...] part is a bracketed expression that matches a single character out of the ones listed. In this pattern, the character between a and d must be either a b or a c for the pattern to match.


  • If abd exists, but acd does not, then it would only expand to abd, and vice versa. By default, the pattern would remain unexpanded if there was no matching filename.


ab,cd is a brace expansion (in shells that support these). It will expand to the two strings abd and acd.



  • The ... part is a comma-delimited set of strings (in this example; it may also be a range such as a..k or 20..25), and the expansion is computed by combining each of these strings with the flanking strings a and d.


  • The expansion happens regardless of whether these strings corresponds to existing filenames or not.


If you are constructing strings, use a brace expansion. If you are matching filenames, use a filename pattern.







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  • Thank you for clarifying "If abd exists, but acd does not, then it would only expand to abd". I guess that is what is missing from my answer.

    – Weijun Zhou
    17 hours ago






  • 2





    Another crucial difference is that in ab,cd, the b and c parts don't need to be single letters; e.g. exten,cision. While ex[tenci]sion or whatever will only match one of these letters.

    – alexis
    1 hour ago











  • @alexis Thanks, I've made some changes.

    – Kusalananda
    1 hour ago

















  • Thank you for clarifying "If abd exists, but acd does not, then it would only expand to abd". I guess that is what is missing from my answer.

    – Weijun Zhou
    17 hours ago






  • 2





    Another crucial difference is that in ab,cd, the b and c parts don't need to be single letters; e.g. exten,cision. While ex[tenci]sion or whatever will only match one of these letters.

    – alexis
    1 hour ago











  • @alexis Thanks, I've made some changes.

    – Kusalananda
    1 hour ago
















Thank you for clarifying "If abd exists, but acd does not, then it would only expand to abd". I guess that is what is missing from my answer.

– Weijun Zhou
17 hours ago





Thank you for clarifying "If abd exists, but acd does not, then it would only expand to abd". I guess that is what is missing from my answer.

– Weijun Zhou
17 hours ago




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Another crucial difference is that in ab,cd, the b and c parts don't need to be single letters; e.g. exten,cision. While ex[tenci]sion or whatever will only match one of these letters.

– alexis
1 hour ago





Another crucial difference is that in ab,cd, the b and c parts don't need to be single letters; e.g. exten,cision. While ex[tenci]sion or whatever will only match one of these letters.

– alexis
1 hour ago













@alexis Thanks, I've made some changes.

– Kusalananda
1 hour ago





@alexis Thanks, I've made some changes.

– Kusalananda
1 hour ago













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a[bc]d is pattern-matching, and is part of the POSIX standard. In POSIX, this is introduced as the "pattern bracket expression". It is documented in section 2.13 of the manual




When unquoted and outside a bracket expression, the following three
characters shall have special meaning in the specification of
patterns:



    ?

      A question-mark is a pattern that shall match any character.

    *

      An asterisk is a pattern that shall match multiple characters, as
      described in Patterns Matching Multiple Characters.

    [

      The open bracket shall introduce a pattern bracket expression.


Section 2.13.3 also mentions something that it behaves differently from what one would expect for usual regexs when it is used for filename expansion (emphasis by me)




The rules described so far in Patterns Matching a Single Character and
Patterns Matching Multiple Characters are qualified by the following
rules that apply when pattern matching notation is used for filename
expansion:



The slash character in a pathname shall be explicitly matched by using
one or more slashes in the pattern; it shall neither be matched by the
asterisk or question-mark special characters nor by a bracket
expression. Slashes in the pattern shall be identified before bracket
expressions;
thus, a slash cannot be included in a pattern bracket
expression used for filename expansion. If a slash character is found
following an unescaped open square bracket character before a
corresponding closing square bracket is found, the open bracket shall
be treated as an ordinary character. For example, the pattern
"a[b/c]d" does not match such pathnames as abd or a/d.
It only matches a pathname of literally a[b/c]d.




ab,cd is braces expansion, it is not in the specification by POSIX. Here is the corresponding part from the bash manual (emphasis by me):




Brace expansion is a mechanism by which arbitrary strings may be
generated. This mechanism is similar to filename expansion (see
Filename Expansion), but the filenames generated need not exist.
Patterns to be brace expanded take the form of an optional preamble,
followed by either a series of comma-separated strings or a sequence
expression between a pair of braces, followed by an optional
postscript. The preamble is prefixed to each string contained within
the braces, and the postscript is then appended to each resulting
string, expanding left to right.




According to the comment by @mosvy, this first appeared from csh but the behavior in bash is different from csh and other shells. This type of braces expansion is also present in glob(3).



There is another type of braces expansion a..z that only appeared after bash 3.0, and there are more added in bash 4.0.



In a shell where globbing is turned on, execute in a empty folder, the following result is returned



$ echo a[bc]d
a[bc]d
$ echo ab,cd
abd acd


In response to @Jesse_b's comment, if you are in an interactive shell and both of them applies, a[bc]d is less trouble typing. For example grep pattern [ab][12].txt.






share|improve this answer




















  • 1





    The brace expansion is not a "bashism"; it first appeared in csh, long before bash. It's also present in the glob(3) library function. The difference is that in bash it's performed before other expansions: a=A; ab=A/B; ac=A/C; echo $ab,c will work in bash differently from any other shell.

    – mosvy
    16 hours ago











  • Thank you. I will update the answer.

    – Weijun Zhou
    16 hours ago















3














a[bc]d is pattern-matching, and is part of the POSIX standard. In POSIX, this is introduced as the "pattern bracket expression". It is documented in section 2.13 of the manual




When unquoted and outside a bracket expression, the following three
characters shall have special meaning in the specification of
patterns:



    ?

      A question-mark is a pattern that shall match any character.

    *

      An asterisk is a pattern that shall match multiple characters, as
      described in Patterns Matching Multiple Characters.

    [

      The open bracket shall introduce a pattern bracket expression.


Section 2.13.3 also mentions something that it behaves differently from what one would expect for usual regexs when it is used for filename expansion (emphasis by me)




The rules described so far in Patterns Matching a Single Character and
Patterns Matching Multiple Characters are qualified by the following
rules that apply when pattern matching notation is used for filename
expansion:



The slash character in a pathname shall be explicitly matched by using
one or more slashes in the pattern; it shall neither be matched by the
asterisk or question-mark special characters nor by a bracket
expression. Slashes in the pattern shall be identified before bracket
expressions;
thus, a slash cannot be included in a pattern bracket
expression used for filename expansion. If a slash character is found
following an unescaped open square bracket character before a
corresponding closing square bracket is found, the open bracket shall
be treated as an ordinary character. For example, the pattern
"a[b/c]d" does not match such pathnames as abd or a/d.
It only matches a pathname of literally a[b/c]d.




ab,cd is braces expansion, it is not in the specification by POSIX. Here is the corresponding part from the bash manual (emphasis by me):




Brace expansion is a mechanism by which arbitrary strings may be
generated. This mechanism is similar to filename expansion (see
Filename Expansion), but the filenames generated need not exist.
Patterns to be brace expanded take the form of an optional preamble,
followed by either a series of comma-separated strings or a sequence
expression between a pair of braces, followed by an optional
postscript. The preamble is prefixed to each string contained within
the braces, and the postscript is then appended to each resulting
string, expanding left to right.




According to the comment by @mosvy, this first appeared from csh but the behavior in bash is different from csh and other shells. This type of braces expansion is also present in glob(3).



There is another type of braces expansion a..z that only appeared after bash 3.0, and there are more added in bash 4.0.



In a shell where globbing is turned on, execute in a empty folder, the following result is returned



$ echo a[bc]d
a[bc]d
$ echo ab,cd
abd acd


In response to @Jesse_b's comment, if you are in an interactive shell and both of them applies, a[bc]d is less trouble typing. For example grep pattern [ab][12].txt.






share|improve this answer




















  • 1





    The brace expansion is not a "bashism"; it first appeared in csh, long before bash. It's also present in the glob(3) library function. The difference is that in bash it's performed before other expansions: a=A; ab=A/B; ac=A/C; echo $ab,c will work in bash differently from any other shell.

    – mosvy
    16 hours ago











  • Thank you. I will update the answer.

    – Weijun Zhou
    16 hours ago













3












3








3







a[bc]d is pattern-matching, and is part of the POSIX standard. In POSIX, this is introduced as the "pattern bracket expression". It is documented in section 2.13 of the manual




When unquoted and outside a bracket expression, the following three
characters shall have special meaning in the specification of
patterns:



    ?

      A question-mark is a pattern that shall match any character.

    *

      An asterisk is a pattern that shall match multiple characters, as
      described in Patterns Matching Multiple Characters.

    [

      The open bracket shall introduce a pattern bracket expression.


Section 2.13.3 also mentions something that it behaves differently from what one would expect for usual regexs when it is used for filename expansion (emphasis by me)




The rules described so far in Patterns Matching a Single Character and
Patterns Matching Multiple Characters are qualified by the following
rules that apply when pattern matching notation is used for filename
expansion:



The slash character in a pathname shall be explicitly matched by using
one or more slashes in the pattern; it shall neither be matched by the
asterisk or question-mark special characters nor by a bracket
expression. Slashes in the pattern shall be identified before bracket
expressions;
thus, a slash cannot be included in a pattern bracket
expression used for filename expansion. If a slash character is found
following an unescaped open square bracket character before a
corresponding closing square bracket is found, the open bracket shall
be treated as an ordinary character. For example, the pattern
"a[b/c]d" does not match such pathnames as abd or a/d.
It only matches a pathname of literally a[b/c]d.




ab,cd is braces expansion, it is not in the specification by POSIX. Here is the corresponding part from the bash manual (emphasis by me):




Brace expansion is a mechanism by which arbitrary strings may be
generated. This mechanism is similar to filename expansion (see
Filename Expansion), but the filenames generated need not exist.
Patterns to be brace expanded take the form of an optional preamble,
followed by either a series of comma-separated strings or a sequence
expression between a pair of braces, followed by an optional
postscript. The preamble is prefixed to each string contained within
the braces, and the postscript is then appended to each resulting
string, expanding left to right.




According to the comment by @mosvy, this first appeared from csh but the behavior in bash is different from csh and other shells. This type of braces expansion is also present in glob(3).



There is another type of braces expansion a..z that only appeared after bash 3.0, and there are more added in bash 4.0.



In a shell where globbing is turned on, execute in a empty folder, the following result is returned



$ echo a[bc]d
a[bc]d
$ echo ab,cd
abd acd


In response to @Jesse_b's comment, if you are in an interactive shell and both of them applies, a[bc]d is less trouble typing. For example grep pattern [ab][12].txt.






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a[bc]d is pattern-matching, and is part of the POSIX standard. In POSIX, this is introduced as the "pattern bracket expression". It is documented in section 2.13 of the manual




When unquoted and outside a bracket expression, the following three
characters shall have special meaning in the specification of
patterns:



    ?

      A question-mark is a pattern that shall match any character.

    *

      An asterisk is a pattern that shall match multiple characters, as
      described in Patterns Matching Multiple Characters.

    [

      The open bracket shall introduce a pattern bracket expression.


Section 2.13.3 also mentions something that it behaves differently from what one would expect for usual regexs when it is used for filename expansion (emphasis by me)




The rules described so far in Patterns Matching a Single Character and
Patterns Matching Multiple Characters are qualified by the following
rules that apply when pattern matching notation is used for filename
expansion:



The slash character in a pathname shall be explicitly matched by using
one or more slashes in the pattern; it shall neither be matched by the
asterisk or question-mark special characters nor by a bracket
expression. Slashes in the pattern shall be identified before bracket
expressions;
thus, a slash cannot be included in a pattern bracket
expression used for filename expansion. If a slash character is found
following an unescaped open square bracket character before a
corresponding closing square bracket is found, the open bracket shall
be treated as an ordinary character. For example, the pattern
"a[b/c]d" does not match such pathnames as abd or a/d.
It only matches a pathname of literally a[b/c]d.




ab,cd is braces expansion, it is not in the specification by POSIX. Here is the corresponding part from the bash manual (emphasis by me):




Brace expansion is a mechanism by which arbitrary strings may be
generated. This mechanism is similar to filename expansion (see
Filename Expansion), but the filenames generated need not exist.
Patterns to be brace expanded take the form of an optional preamble,
followed by either a series of comma-separated strings or a sequence
expression between a pair of braces, followed by an optional
postscript. The preamble is prefixed to each string contained within
the braces, and the postscript is then appended to each resulting
string, expanding left to right.




According to the comment by @mosvy, this first appeared from csh but the behavior in bash is different from csh and other shells. This type of braces expansion is also present in glob(3).



There is another type of braces expansion a..z that only appeared after bash 3.0, and there are more added in bash 4.0.



In a shell where globbing is turned on, execute in a empty folder, the following result is returned



$ echo a[bc]d
a[bc]d
$ echo ab,cd
abd acd


In response to @Jesse_b's comment, if you are in an interactive shell and both of them applies, a[bc]d is less trouble typing. For example grep pattern [ab][12].txt.







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    The brace expansion is not a "bashism"; it first appeared in csh, long before bash. It's also present in the glob(3) library function. The difference is that in bash it's performed before other expansions: a=A; ab=A/B; ac=A/C; echo $ab,c will work in bash differently from any other shell.

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  • Thank you. I will update the answer.

    – Weijun Zhou
    16 hours ago












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    The brace expansion is not a "bashism"; it first appeared in csh, long before bash. It's also present in the glob(3) library function. The difference is that in bash it's performed before other expansions: a=A; ab=A/B; ac=A/C; echo $ab,c will work in bash differently from any other shell.

    – mosvy
    16 hours ago











  • Thank you. I will update the answer.

    – Weijun Zhou
    16 hours ago







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The brace expansion is not a "bashism"; it first appeared in csh, long before bash. It's also present in the glob(3) library function. The difference is that in bash it's performed before other expansions: a=A; ab=A/B; ac=A/C; echo $ab,c will work in bash differently from any other shell.

– mosvy
16 hours ago





The brace expansion is not a "bashism"; it first appeared in csh, long before bash. It's also present in the glob(3) library function. The difference is that in bash it's performed before other expansions: a=A; ab=A/B; ac=A/C; echo $ab,c will work in bash differently from any other shell.

– mosvy
16 hours ago













Thank you. I will update the answer.

– Weijun Zhou
16 hours ago





Thank you. I will update the answer.

– Weijun Zhou
16 hours ago

















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