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Re: give me some syntax sugar, honey!
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Paul Jarc |
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Re: give me some syntax sugar, honey! |
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Fri, 09 Nov 2001 12:23:11 -0500 |
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stig@hackvan.com wrote:
> foo[12-21] would expand to foo12, foo13, ... foo20, foo21
The [] syntax already has meaning, so it shouldn't be changed. It
could be done with a different syntax, but maybe this will already
work for you:
eval "echo foo{$(seq -s, 12 21)}"
Beware that this will produce all such filenames, regardless of
whether those files exist.
paul