Re: How does {x..y} supposed to work?

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/14/21 1:10 PM, Mike Jonkmans wrote:
> On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 03:14:33PM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:

> > Hmmmmm. So which would be better: "alphabetic character" or "letter"?
>
> letter is better:
> - it is shorter
> - it rhymes

but liquor is quicker?

> Btw is this a posix restriction? It seems to be an unnecessary limitation.

It's not a POSIX restriction; POSIX doesn't specify brace expansion. It's
been this way since I introduced bash brace sequence expressions.

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