William Park wrote:

>> side note, this also fails:
>> $ echo {a}{b,c}
>> {a}{b,c}
>> -mike
> 
> But,
>     echo {b,c}{x}
> prints the correct result,
>     b{x} c{x}
> 
> Well, gentlemen, we've found a bug.  Anyone sending in a patch?  I don't
> use multiple braces that often, so it doesn't bother me. :-)

Don't bother, I already fixed it.  When I fixed the problems with braces
that don't begin a valid brace expansion sequence, it was easy to change
the behavior you're arguing about.  The old csh-compatible behavior will
be available with a #define.

Chet
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