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

From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: How does {x..y} supposed to work?
Date: Sun, 16 May 2021 19:38:35 -0400
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On 5/14/21 6:33 PM, Mike Jonkmans wrote:


How about {\x..\y} does an escaped expansion?
E.g. {\Z..\a} expands to \Z \[ \\ \] \^ \_ \` \a
Or {'x'..'y'} expanding to 'x' ... 'y'


This is a reasonable extension, and would solve the {Z..a} issue.

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