Re: OT: bash - pattern matching
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 08:28:29AM +0100, Dieter Baurecht wrote:
> Pascal Volk schrieb:
>
> >~/blahblub$ ls -l {,.}foo*
>
> Toll! Kann mir bitte jemand {,.} in Worte übersetzten.
man bash
Brace Expansion
Brace expansion is a mechanism by which arbitrary strings
may be generated. This mechanism is similar to pathname
expansion, but the filenames generated need not exist.
Patterns to be brace expanded take the form of an optional
preamble, followed by a series of comma-separated strings
between a pair of braces, followed by an optional
postscript. The preamble is prefixed to each string con-
tained within the braces, and the postscript is then
appended to each resulting string, expanding left to right.
Brace expansions may be nested. The results of each
expanded string are not sorted; left to right order is pre-
served. For example, a{d,c,b}e expands into 'ade ace abe'.
Brace expansion is performed before any other expansions,
and any characters special to other expansions are pre-
served in the result. It is strictly textual. Bash does
not apply any syntactic interpretation to the context of
the expansion or the text between the braces.
Christian
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