[Yum-devel] I'm the new maintainer for yum in Debian
Thomas Goirand
thomas at goirand.fr
Thu Apr 9 04:19:33 UTC 2009
Charlie Brady wrote:
>
> Hard to prove a negative - but there's no reference to "brace expansion"
> in http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html.
>
> Peter Seebach, in "Beginning Portable Shell Scripting: From Novice to
> Professional" (http://books.google.ca/books?id=53zaxy423xcC)
> tells us:
>
> Brace Expansion Brace expansion is a variety of expansion introduced by
> csh, and later adopted by ksh, bash, and zsh.
# touch test1.txt
# touch test2.txt
# dash
dash # ls test{1,2}.txt
ls: cannot access test{1,2}.txt: No such file or directory
No need to read further...
Thomas
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