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Re: strange expansion of <(cat p.main.{optional,extra})
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Eric Blake |
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Re: strange expansion of <(cat p.main.{optional,extra}) |
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Wed, 18 Apr 2007 06:16:05 -0600 |
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According to Andreas Schwab on 4/18/2007 4:01 AM:
> Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> writes:
>
>> Well, no, because bash expands *parameters*, not words. So the prefix is
>> "<(cat /etc/", and the suffix is ")".
>
> But that would not be a *strict textual* expansion.
According to 'man bash', brace expansion is documented as being able to
expand one word into many. <(...) forms a single word, even when ...
contains unquoted spaces. Therefore, strict textual expansion occurred,
and there was no syntax error.
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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- strange expansion of <(cat p.main.{optional,extra}), lucas, 2007/04/17
- Re: strange expansion of <(cat p.main.{optional,extra}), Chet Ramey, 2007/04/17
- Re: strange expansion of <(cat p.main.{optional,extra}), Andreas Schwab, 2007/04/18
- Re: strange expansion of <(cat p.main.{optional,extra}), Lucas Nussbaum, 2007/04/18
- Re: strange expansion of <(cat p.main.{optional,extra}), Andreas Schwab, 2007/04/18
- Re: strange expansion of <(cat p.main.{optional,extra}),
Eric Blake <=
- Re: strange expansion of <(cat p.main.{optional,extra}), Andreas Schwab, 2007/04/18
- Re: strange expansion of <(cat p.main.{optional,extra}), Lucas Nussbaum, 2007/04/18
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