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Re: strange expansion of <(cat p.main.{optional,extra})
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: strange expansion of <(cat p.main.{optional,extra}) |
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Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:37:03 +0200 |
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Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> writes:
> 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.
The documentation talks about strings, not words.
> <(...) forms a single word, even when ... contains unquoted spaces.
That requires syntactic interpretation to the context of the expansion,
which is explicitly excluded.
Andreas.
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"And now for something completely different."
- 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, 2007/04/18
- Re: strange expansion of <(cat p.main.{optional,extra}),
Andreas Schwab <=
- Re: strange expansion of <(cat p.main.{optional,extra}), Lucas Nussbaum, 2007/04/18
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