Re: wasted disk space

[Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>]

Paul Slootman <paul@murphy.nl> wrote:
> or:

> 	for i in {a,b,c,d,e}; do
> 	    for j in {0,1,2,3,4}; do
> 		echo $i-$j
> 	    done
> 	done

What's the difference between
	for i in {a,b,c,d,e}; do
and
	for i in a b c d e; do
in bash?

> keystrokes isn't that important), however for interactive work
> it's a pretty nifty feature.

Agreed.  If I can get the glob(3) in glibc fixed, ash can support
{} expansions with no extra cost.  Of course, this doesn't mean
that any #!/bin/sh should be allowed to use {} expansions.
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