Re: passing argument with brace expansion to script

[Andreas Berglund <andreas.berglund@home.se>]

Ken Irving wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 07:59:52PM +0100, Andreas Berglund wrote:
> > Hi!
> > I have a script to which I would like to pass an argument that contains  
> > brace expansion, but I want the expansion to be evaluated in the script,  
> > not before it gets passed along. Does annyone know how to do that?
>
> Generally single or double quotes will "protect" arguments against
> expansion in a shell command.  The quotes are removed in the process,
> so the arguments should be available separately inside the script.  
> Bash brace expansion is kind of a special case, though, and I'm not
> sure it'll work this way...  Some simple tests would answer the question.
>
> Ken

I have tried the traditional techniques with quotes, single and double, 
and backslashes and it does get the argument to the script unchanged, 
but then it won't get evaluated in the script for some reason, perhaps 
it's not possible?