Re: [Help-bash] Brace expansion with empty args

[Greg Wooledge]

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 03:00:36PM +0200, Roman Rakus wrote:
> On 06/14/13 14:54, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> >It produces a single null string:
> >
> >imadev:~$ printf '<%s> ' {,} ; echo
> ><>
> >
> Which is erased:
> $ printf '<%s> ' {,} after; echo
> <after>

Ah, you're correct here.  It was printf that introduced that null string,
not brace expansion.

imadev:~$ printf '<%s> '; echo
<>