Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory

[Dustin Sallings]

On Wednesday, Sep 24, 2003, at 12:13 US/Pacific, Miles Bader wrote:

> A brace only has a special shell meaning if it occurs by itself (as a 
> word)
> or if there's a comma inside some braces.  Bash _will_ automatically 
> add
> backslashes before any unquoted brace during completion, but this is
> apparently just a completion artifact (and has no real effect other 
> than to
> make completion happy).

dustin2wti:~ 502% echo pen{,cil} pen{cil}
pen pencil pencil

	Wouldn't the latter case violate your assertion?  Either way, it's 
kind of weird to special case expansion like that.

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Dustin Sallings